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To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
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By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
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I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.
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You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
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First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.
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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
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One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.
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Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
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History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
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My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.
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