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History is too important to be left to the historians.

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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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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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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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History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
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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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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
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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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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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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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If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
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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 make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
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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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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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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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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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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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Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
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