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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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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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I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.
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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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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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Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books the women characters often rather decorative.
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I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
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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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The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
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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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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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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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But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.
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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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He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
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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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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
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It was the most romantic plane ever made.
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I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.
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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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