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Robert Harris Quotes

British - Novelist | March 7, 1957 -

If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.

History Time Light Perspective Me

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

Power Storytelling Narcotic

I think a lot of us feel, when we look at the Dow Jones plunging, alienated - you do feel as if we're in the grip of some alien force that slipped human control.

Control Think Feel You Look Alien

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

Yourself Think Talking You Find Out

Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.

Change Attitude Girl Time Men Hands

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

Life Time Money True Got Currency

Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind.

Wind Holocaust Dust Forgotten Stalin

For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?

Keep Going People Me Gold Enough

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.

Happiness Day Growing Up You Growing

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

Writing Talking Head Up Fiction Pop

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

Nature War Win Human Nature You

My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.

Father Mother Time School News Left

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