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
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.
war winning human-nature
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
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
art worry tonight
Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.
sides dawn inertia
By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
writing political interest
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
men winning fool
You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.
victory events remorseless
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
influence huge
Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
writing trying four
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.
thinking way goes-on
Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.