Robert Harris Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.”

“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?”

“Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.”

“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.”

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

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

“Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.”

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

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

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