236 Quotes by Robert Harris

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

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.

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 is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.

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?

[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.