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?
It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money. - Robert Harris
It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.
- Robert Harris
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road. - Robert Harris
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in adva… - Robert Harris
Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in adva…
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that. - Robert Harris
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all. - Robert Harris
But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.
Storytelling has a narcotic power. - Robert Harris
Storytelling has a narcotic power.
It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward … - Robert Harris
It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward …
You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past. - Robert Harris
You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events. - Robert Harris
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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