Top 46 Quotes by Ken Follett

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

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

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

I enjoy learning technical details.

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

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.

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

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

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.

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