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Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

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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His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It was the most romantic plane ever made.
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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
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In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
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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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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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My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
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Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
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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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What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.
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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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The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
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We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.
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Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books the women characters often rather decorative.
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