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People perish. Books are immortal.

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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
Books
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People
Pompeii
Perish
Immortal

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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
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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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By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
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History is too important to be left to the historians.
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Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.
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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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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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It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.
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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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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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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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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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You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
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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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To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
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Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.
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If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
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