Quotes Ken Follett

A very good editor is almost a collaborator....

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. S...

Be a perfectionist....

Culture clash is terrific drama....

For success, the author must make the reader care about the ...

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female ch...

I enjoy learning technical details....

I like to create imaginary characters and events around a re...

I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the...

In a broad valley, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside...

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woma...

It was the most romantic plane ever made....

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing an...

Most of my stories have some basis in fact....

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writer...

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of...

The CIA's research program is described in a book called The...

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. Th...

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th ...

There was a very serious communist strain among American int...

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the ...

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene t...

When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What wou...

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a cha...

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the big...