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I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.

Ken Follett

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Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
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Kenneth Martin Follett
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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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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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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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He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
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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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I enjoy learning technical details.
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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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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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Hard work should be rewarded by good food.
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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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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 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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Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books the women characters often rather decorative.
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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 imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
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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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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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