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Robert Harris

British

March 7, 1957

Novelist

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

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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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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.

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One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.

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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.

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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.

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