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 Read Quote
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. Robert Harris Read Quote
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. Robert Harris Read Quote
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. Robert Harris Read Quote
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. Robert Harris Read Quote
Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price. Robert Harris Read Quote
You can’t ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can’t repeal human nature. Robert Harris Read Quote
In a way I’m almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair. Robert Harris Read Quote
