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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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Cardiff
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Kenneth Martin Follett
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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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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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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
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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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The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.
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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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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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She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.
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In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
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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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Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.
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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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Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
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I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
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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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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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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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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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