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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.

Robert Harris

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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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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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If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
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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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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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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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People perish. Books are immortal.
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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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Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!
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Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
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Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
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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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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
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Storytelling has a narcotic power.
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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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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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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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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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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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