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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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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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She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.
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I enjoy learning technical details.
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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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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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Hard work should be rewarded by good food.
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In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
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Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
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