Will Harris
Will Harris
William Taylor Harrisis an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball. He previously played for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies...
writing heart stories
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
portraits would-be rich
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
real writing done
It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.
regret able jokes
My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.
careers flukes unexpected
My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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.
book people pompeii
People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)
clever mistake stupid
But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.
thinking talking talking-to-yourself
You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
work-out history together
Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.
men names suits
Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?
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.