All Ken Follett Quotes
An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
Ken 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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The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
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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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Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
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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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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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Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
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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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With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
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World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
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The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.
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