History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events. Robert Harris More Quotes by Robert Harris More Quotes From Robert Harris My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like. Robert Harris jokes able regret [Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products. Robert Harris boxers serious tools I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety. Robert Harris zenith anxiety thinking Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree. Robert Harris goes-on way thinking 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. Robert Harris four writing trying 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. Robert Harris tonight worry art 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 Robert Harris choices decision leadership 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. Robert Harris scary leader thinking Orwell has always been a huge influence on me. Robert Harris influence huge It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done. Robert Harris done real writing It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money. Robert Harris 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. Robert Harris crazy long thinking 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. Robert Harris growing-up missing kids If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business. Robert Harris portraits rich would-be 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. Robert Harris issues years thinking 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. Robert Harris girlfriend sides years 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. Robert Harris work-out together history History is too important to be left to the historians. Robert Harris historian left important Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name? Robert Harris names doe men 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. Robert Harris flower writing thinking
