Ken Follett Book Quotations

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.

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

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.

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.

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.