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Ken Follett
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Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
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I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.
Ken Follett
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
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.
Ken Follett
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.
Ken Follett
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
She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.
Ken Follett
The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.
Ken Follett
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books the women characters often rather decorative.
Ken Follett
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
Ken Follett
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.
Ken Follett
Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
Ken Follett
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.
Ken Follett
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.
Ken Follett
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
Ken Follett
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.
Ken Follett
The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
Ken Follett
In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
Ken Follett
It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
Ken Follett
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
He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
Ken Follett