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
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.
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.
past make-sense
You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
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?
boxers serious tools
[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.
death long trying
If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.
suicide feelings guilty
Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.
running country police
A police state is a country run by criminals
important historian left
History is too important to be left to the historians.
fighting opportunity men
That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
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.
fool combat sail
But only a fool sails into combat with nature
golf games two
In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary. It will seem to them that the game is not as good as it might be.
people house gold
For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?