456 Quotes by Ken Follett

Grégory avait un esprit tordu qui convenait parfaitement à qui voulait pratiquer le droit.

There had been a wonderful atmosphere of liberation and camaraderie. The Russians hated it.

You’re a queer?”“That’s exactly what I am. I didn’t choose to be.”After a while Woody put his arm around Chuck’s shoulders.“Well, what the hell,” he said. “At least you’re not a Republican.

You don’t give up on democracy every time you lose a vote”, Ethel said crisply.

This is amazing,” Volodya said. “He’s the President, yet he has to make excuses all the time for what he does!”“Something like that,” Woody said. “We call it democracy.

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

People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed.

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.