Robert Harris Quotes About Writing
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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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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.
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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.
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I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
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I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
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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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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.
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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.
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