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Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
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Kenneth Martin Follett
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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
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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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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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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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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 might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.
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I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see 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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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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Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books the women characters often rather decorative.
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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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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?
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Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
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Culture clash is terrific drama.
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Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.
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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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The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
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His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.
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Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
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