236 Quotes by Robert Harris

Politics is a country idiot capable of concentrating on only one thing at a time.

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.

There is a wonderful line in one of Cicero’s letters to Atticus in which he describes moving into a property and says: I have put out my books and now my house has a soul.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. – Pg. 195.

The line between accident and suicide isn’t always clearly defined. You could kill yourself without really making up your mind.

Well, well – be careful of what questions you ask, for fear of what answers you may receive.

This is the trouble with internet research, in my experience. The proportion of what’s useful to what’s dross dwindles very quickly, and suddenly it’s like searching for something dropped down the back of a sofa and coming up with handfuls of old coins, buttons, fluff, and sucked sweets. What’s important is to ask the right question, and.

In the absence of genius there is always craftsmanship.

Violence crackled around him in the dry air, like static electricity.