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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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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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It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
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The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.
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He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
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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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I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.
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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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Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?
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I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.
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Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
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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 imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
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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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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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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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I enjoy learning technical details.
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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 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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