236 Quotes by Robert Harris

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.

You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.

Those two people were swayed more by sympathy and emotion for the family than anything objective. That's my feeling.

Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.

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.

There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life.

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.

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.

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.