Robert Harris

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Cut your manuscript ruthlessly but never throw anything away: it's amazing how often a discarded scene or description, which wouldn't fit in one place, will work perfectly later.

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

We are looking for highly technical, enthusiastic and capable entrepreneurs who have a healthy disregard for the impossible, and that's not always easy to find.

When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in, and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter.