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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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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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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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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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Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
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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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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 like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.
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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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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
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He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
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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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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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My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
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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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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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She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.
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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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