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Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
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Kenneth Martin Follett
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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.
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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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In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
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Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?
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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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Hard work should be rewarded by good food.
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He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
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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.
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Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
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His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.
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Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books the women characters often rather decorative.
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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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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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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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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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Jack Reacher is a brilliant movie
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Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
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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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She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.
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I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
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