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He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

Ken Follett

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Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
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Kenneth Martin Follett
Conditionally
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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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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
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Culture clash is terrific drama.
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It was the most romantic plane ever made.
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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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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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Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
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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 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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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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Hard work should be rewarded by good food.
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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 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 imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
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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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His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.
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