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Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

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Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
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Kenneth Martin Follett
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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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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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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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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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Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
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I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
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Culture clash is terrific drama.
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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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I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.
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I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.
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He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
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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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It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
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His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.
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