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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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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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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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In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
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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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Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?
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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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It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
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I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
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The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
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The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.
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We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.
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