Robert Harris Quotes

• In a way I’m almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

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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 write as well as I can. I’m a journalist at heart, so it’s the story that matters.

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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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• I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don’t agree.

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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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• If one tries to think about history, it seems to me – it’s like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you’ve moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.

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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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• People will perish, but books are immortal.

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Robert Harris (53)

Birth:	7th March, 1957
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer

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