Robert Harris Quotes

[boxer Is] The Ultimate Tool For The Serious Pro' That Can't Afford The Time And Patience To Mess Around With Lesser Products.

That Young Man Seeks Opportunities To Test His Principles As Readily As A Drunk Picks Fights In A Bar.

I Was A Political Journalist; I Came To Writing Novels Through An Interest In Politics And Power.

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.

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!

Orwell Has Always Been A Huge Influence On Me.

A Book Unwritten Is A Delightful Universe Of Infinite Possibilities. Set Down One Word, However, And It Immediately Becomes Earthbound. Set Down One Sentence And It’s Halfway To Being Just Like Every Other Bloody Book That’s Ever Been Written.

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.

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?

In A Generation Or Two, Or Maybe Sooner, Young Golfers Of True Sporting Instinct Will Wonder Why All This Handling Of The Ball Is Necessary. It Will Seem To Them That The Game Is Not As Good As It Might Be.

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.

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.