Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mareis an English author and former politician. Before becoming an author, Archer was a Member of Parliament, but did not seek re-election after a financial scandal that left him almost bankrupt. Later, after a revival of his fortunes from the royalties of his best-selling novels, he became deputy chairman of the Conservative Partybefore resigning after another scandal, which would lead to the end of his career in elected office. He was made a life...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 April 1940
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But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking
The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle
No time like the present
A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.
The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.
When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.
I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
Birth is life's first lottery ticket.
Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.