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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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Culture clash is terrific drama.
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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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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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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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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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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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Jack Reacher is a brilliant movie
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His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.
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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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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 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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I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.
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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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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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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 like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
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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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Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?
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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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