Quote

His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.

Ken Follett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
Author
Novelist
Writer
Cardiff
Wales
Kenneth Martin Follett
Philip
Pleased
Aim
Glory

More quotes by Ken Follett

Image
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?
Ken Follett
Image
But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.
Ken Follett
Image
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.
Ken Follett
Image
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
Ken Follett
Image
She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.
Ken Follett
Image
Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
Ken Follett
Image
Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
Ken Follett
Image
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.
Ken Follett
Image
There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.
Ken Follett
Image
The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
Ken Follett
Image
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.
Ken Follett
Image
I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
Ken Follett
Image
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.
Ken Follett
Image
It was the most romantic plane ever made.
Ken Follett
Image
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.
Ken Follett
Image
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
Ken Follett
Image
you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
Ken Follett
Image
He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
Ken Follett
Image
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
Ken Follett
Image
Culture clash is terrific drama.
Ken Follett