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What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.
Ken Follett
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Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
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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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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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She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.
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But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.
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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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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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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
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I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
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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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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 might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.
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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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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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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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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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