You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties. Robert Harris bigcapablecommercial Change image and share on social
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events. Robert Harris eventforwardgrind Change image and share on social
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. Robert Harris dayhoursession Change image and share on social
I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety. Robert Harris anxietycreepfeel Change image and share on social
Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to protect themselves. Robert Harris bodyguardisolate Change image and share on social
Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price. Robert Harris longluxuryprice Change image and share on social
My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter. Robert Harris fathergeorgegraham Change image and share on social
I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy. Robert Harris basketbuydivert Change image and share on social
Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree. Robert Harris agreepoliticthink Change image and share on social
I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that. Robert Harris aqueductbreakercia share on social
