Ken Follett Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.”

“I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.”

“I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the characters are. I usually spend a year on the outline.”

“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.”

“We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.”

“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.”

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

“After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.”

“An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.”

“Be a perfectionist.”