Writing Quotes by Robert Harris

Robert Harris

A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written.

Book

Infinite

Writing

Robert Harris

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.

Four

Trying

Writing

Robert Harris

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

Interest

Political

Writing

Robert Harris

I write as well as I can. I’m a journalist at heart, so it’s the story that matters.

Heart

Stories

Writing

Robert Harris

I’ve always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.

Morning

Together

Writing

Robert Harris

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.

Flower

Thinking

Writing

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.

Done

Real

Writing

Robert Harris

Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.

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Years

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Done

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Fool

Four

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Girlfriend

Giving

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Gold

Golf

Growing Up

Guilty

Hands

Heart

Historian

History

Hot

House

Huge

Human Nature

Ideas

Important

Inertia

Infinite

Influence

Interest

Issues

Jokes

Kids

Leader

Leadership

Left

Life Is

Long

Luxury

Make Sense

Men

Might

Missing

Mistake

Morning

Moving

Names

Narcotics

Natural

Opportunity

Party

Past

People

Perseverance

Personality

Play

Player

Police

Political

Pompeii

Portraits

Purpose

Real

Regret

Remorseless

Rich

Running

Sail

Scales

Scary

Serious

Shows

Sides

Simple

Soul

Spiders

Stores

Stories

Storytelling

Stupid

Suicide

Talking

Talking To Yourself

Tape

Technology

Thinking

Together

Tonight

Tools

Trying

Two

Unexpected

Vampire

Victory

War

Way

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Wilson

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Winning

Work Out

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Writing Quotes by Robert Harris

A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written.

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.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

I write as well as I can. I’m a journalist at heart, so it’s the story that matters.

I’ve always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.

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.

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

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