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Culture clash is terrific drama.

Ken Follett

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Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
Author
Novelist
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Cardiff
Wales
Kenneth Martin Follett
Culture
Clash
Terrific
Drama

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Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.
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There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.
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I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.
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His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.
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He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
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I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
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I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.
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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
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I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.
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Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
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There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
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Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
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I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.
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Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
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I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.
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Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.
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To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.
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What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.
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It was the most romantic plane ever made.
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