Robert Harris
Robert Harris
British author, journalist, and BBC reporter who became known for his best-selling historical novel, Fatherland. The work is a thriller set during World War II.
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 March 1957
golf play long
If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?
past make-sense
You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
tape scales stores
Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.
flower writing thinking
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else.
important historian left
History is too important to be left to the historians.
perseverance moving men
It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.
might credit wells
Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.
careers political ashes
What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!
sides dawn inertia
By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
cutting technology world
The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.
growing-up kids missing
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.
thinking years issues
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.
girlfriend years sides
To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.
leadership decision choices
What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason