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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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What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.
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It was the most romantic plane ever made.
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Jack Reacher is a brilliant movie
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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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The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
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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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Culture clash is terrific drama.
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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 CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
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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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It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
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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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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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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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The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.
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Hard work should be rewarded by good food.
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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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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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