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Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Ken Follett

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Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
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Kenneth Martin Follett
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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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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 like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
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Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.
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Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
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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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In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
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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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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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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 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.
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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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Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?
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It was the most romantic plane ever made.
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