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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
Drama
Culture

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President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.
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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 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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One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.
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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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I enjoy learning technical details.
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I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
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He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
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His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.
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The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
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My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
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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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What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.
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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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She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.
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Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
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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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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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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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