Ken Follett Quotes

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• Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

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  Stupid

  Ken Follett (2012). “Winter of the World”, p.41, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Hands, Water, Littles

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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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  Love, Butterfly, Cocoons

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.732, Penguin

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• The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

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  Degradation, Sooner Or Later, Subjects

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• Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

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  Fear, Action, Antidote

  Ken Follett (2008). “Hornet Flight”, p.351, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

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  Lying, Men, Asking

  Ken Follett (2011). “Ken Follett Three Bestsellers”, p.1216, Penguin

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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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  Believe, Mean, Sitting

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.390, Penguin

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• Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

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  Hard Work, Good Food, Should

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.377, Penguin

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• In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

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  Strong Women, Book, Hero

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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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  Book, Vivacious, Reader

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• you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

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  Want, Firsts, Harvest

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• The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.

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  Mistake, Building, Expensive

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.487, Penguin

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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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  Real, Character, Historical

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. December 15, 2000.

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• When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

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  Lost Everything, Nothing To Lose, Lost

  Ken Follett (2007). “World Without End”, p.826, Penguin

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• The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

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  Men, Ducks, Devil

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• Proportion is the heart of beauty.

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  Heart, Proportion

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.487, Penguin

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• Hunger is the best seasoning.

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  Hunger, Seasoning

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.58, Penguin

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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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  Blow, One Direction, Wind

  Ken Follett (2011). “Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy”, p.347, Penguin

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• Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

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  Men, Betrayed, Betray

  Ken Follett (2010). “Code to Zero”, p.143, Pan Macmillan

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• But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

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  Demand, Lessons, Stories

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.274, Penguin

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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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  Love You, Lions, Rage

  Ken Follett (2011). “Ken Follett EPIC HISTORICAL COLLECTION”, p.987, Penguin

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• But desperate people find courage.

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  People, Desperate

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.315, Penguin

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• Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.

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  Worry, Problem, Theological

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.866, Penguin

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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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  Color, Church, Sun

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.894, Penguin

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• The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.

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  Fun, Research, Firsts

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