Ken Follett Quotes

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.

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.

The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.

His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.

It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.

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

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

I enjoy learning technical details.

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?

I started writing stories in my spare time.

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.

No one's an angel - especially if he's a man

He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains ...

Aliena's brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.

If we're all aggressive, obedient solders [sic], who's going to write the poems and play the blues and go on anti-war protest marches?

It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.

She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.

A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.

In the grounds of the château was a churchsaid to date from the year 1000, and he went to look at it, but he had never really understood what people saw in oldchurches.

In the grounds of the château was a church said to date from the year 1000, and he went to look at it, but he had never really understood what people saw in old churches.

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

politicians often had the knack of seeming to know everyone intimately. Either they had remarkable memories, or their secretaries reminded them efficiently.

Why is it that those who want to destroy everything good about their country are the quickest to waive the national flag?