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You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.
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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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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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People perish. Books are immortal.
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I was a political journalist I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
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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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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.
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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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Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?
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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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Storytelling has a narcotic power.
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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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I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.
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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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History is too important to be left to the historians.
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To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
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