Ken Follett Quotes

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

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.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

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.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

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

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

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.

you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

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.

I could fall for you in a heartbeat

The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.

Hunger is the best seasoning.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

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.

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.

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

But desperate people find courage.

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?

She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.