Ken Follett Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ken Follett
Ken Follett Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The trouble with being inspired to perform the impossible was that the inspiration gave you no clues to the practical means.
America is free because it has disrespectful newspapers and television shows to expose and shame presidents
In the struggle for female equality, Maud reflected, sometimes you had to fight women as well as men.
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.'
One is a comfortable partnership, where two people share the same hopes and fears, raise children as a team, and give each other comfort and help
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.
A wine cellar requires order, forethought and good taste,' the old man used to say. 'These are the virtues that made Britain great.
Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.
He said it in the half-embarrassed, half-defiant tone of someone admitting that he belongs to a religious sect. "You
Everything is ultimately the Prime Minister's fault', said Lloyd. 'That's what it means to be the leader
hundred million Europeans were living on fifteen hundred calories a day - the level at which health begins to suffer from malnutrition. As
Looking in the full-length mirror, she thought, I've got everything I had twenty years ago - it's all just three inches lower.
It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.
institution, poor mite." Lloyd had heard how the baby had been delivered by eleven-year-old Carla. That little girl
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
The Japanese discussed extending their empire, Bexforth went on. They had already annexed the vast region of Manchuria, Greg
An apology is designed to make the offender feel okay so that he can do it again. Don't be sorry. Kincaid tried to gather the shreds
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?'
He was famous for holding meetings at which no one was allowed to sit down: he believed people reached decisions faster that way. The
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?
in this country, who's got the most guns - you and Lloyd and the Labour Party, or the Conservatives with the army and the police on their side?
Don't worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged. She
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
Fascism offered false solutions, simplistically blaming groups such as Jews and Communists for complex problems such as unemployment and crime.
You can't write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they're called literary novels.
Like all diplomats, Walter hated it when monarchs talked directly to each other, instead of through their ministers. Anything could happen then.
An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
He was the kind of man George had been fighting for a decade: an ugly, fat, foul-mouthed, stupid white racist.
It was unladylike even to know the name of your lawyer, let alone to understand your rights under the law. No wonder women were mercilessly exploited.
The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact..
No storm can shake my inmost calm While to that rock I'm clinging Since Love is Lord of heaven and earth How can I keep from singing?
Why is it that those who want to destroy everything good about their country are the quickest to waive the national flag?
She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly.
There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.
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.
Despite everything they say, they are not popular. And the longer they stay in government, the better people will get to know their wickedness.
The air was thick with coal dust. Was it possible that men breathed this all day? That must be why miners coughed and spat constantly.
If I've learned one thing in Spain, it's that we have to fight the Communists just as hard as the Fascists. They're both evil.
He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver.
The victim had been John Lewis, the theology student. He had been attacked by thugs in a white restroom in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.
I've never told anyone about that letter," he said quietly. "I know," Thomas replied. "If you had, you'd be dead.
In Germany the police had supported the Nazis and sided with the Brownshirts. Would they do the same here? Surely
I adore you' she said. 'When you go, I'll cry. But I'm not going to spoil today by being miserable about tomorrow
Few of them had a father like Billy's da to tell them that the world depicted by their schoolteachers was a fantasy. But
He was like a man who has got used to drinking the finest wine, and now finds that everyday wine thats like vinegar.
The Ottoman Empire was in decline, held back from modernization by a conservative Muslim priesthood.