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
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.
thinking way goes-on
Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
crazy thinking long
I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're there for a long time.
thinking anxiety zenith
I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.
thinking leader scary
One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.
thinking talking talking-to-yourself
You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
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.
equivalent people
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.
band best freshman marching relationships since year
I've been in marching band since my freshman year and the best part of it for me has been the relationships I've made.
appear engaged gone love might politics scared side trench warfare
I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They're all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland.
basically black crisis forget people poverty unless
Black poverty has persisted and become intractable but unless we have some crisis like this, we basically forget about these people -- out of sight, out of mind.
life
There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life.
head missed pressure relieve shooting
I wasn't going to let it get in my head that I had missed a couple. I was going to keep shooting and relieve pressure off some of these guys.
dances everybody grim king street
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.