Author: Robert Harris

Quotes

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

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

- Robert Harris

My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.

My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.

- Robert Harris

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

- Robert Harris

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

- Robert Harris

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

- Robert Harris

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.

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.

- Robert Harris

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

- Robert Harris

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

- Robert Harris

The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.

The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.

- Robert Harris

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