Ken Follett quotes

The most expensive part of building is the mistakes. (Ken Follett)
When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Proportion is the heart of beauty. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended. View quote
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I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it. (Ken Follett)
But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig. View quote
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She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'... View quote
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But desperate people find courage. View quote
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Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice. View quote
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Hunger is the best seasoning. View quote
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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. (Ken Follett)
I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next. View quote
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A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out. View quote
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Why do you have to be the same as the others?... Most of them are stupid. View quote
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Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag? View quote
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