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Culture clash is terrific drama.

Ken Follett

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Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
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Cardiff
Wales
Kenneth Martin Follett
Clash
Terrific
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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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A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.
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When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?
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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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I enjoy learning technical details.
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It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
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I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
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In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
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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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I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.
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World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
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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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Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?
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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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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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Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
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The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.
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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 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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