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Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
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Kenneth Martin Follett
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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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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
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It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
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In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
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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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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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I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.
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The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
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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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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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The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.
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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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Jack Reacher is a brilliant movie
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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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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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She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.
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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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Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
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