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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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It was the most romantic plane ever made.
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He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
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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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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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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
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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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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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She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.
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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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Hard work should be rewarded by good food.
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I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.
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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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Culture clash is terrific drama.
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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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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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It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
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Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books the women characters often rather decorative.
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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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In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
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