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Kenneth Martin "Ken" Follett is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold more than 150 million copies of his works. Many of his books have reached number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list, including Edge of Eternity, Fall of Giants, A Dangerous Fortune, The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple, Winter of the World, and World Without End.

✵ 5. June 1949
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Works

The Pillars of the Earth
Winter of the World
Fall of Giants
Fall of Giants
Ken Follett
Ken Follett: 26 quotes5 likes

Famous Ken Follett Quotes

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

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

“Proportion is the heart of beauty.”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

“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.”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

“But desperate people find courage.”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

The Pillars of the Earth

“When things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

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

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

Ken Follett Quotes about love

“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.”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

“She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'…”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

“And here's my advice to you. If you get the chance of the mad kind of love, grab it with both hands, and to hell with the consequences.”

Ken Follett book Winter of the World

Source: Winter of the World

Ken Follett Quotes

“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.”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

“The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

“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.”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

“A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.”

Ken Follett book Fall of Giants

Source: Fall of Giants

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

Ken Follett book Winter of the World

Source: Winter of the World

“I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

“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?”

Ken Follett book Winter of the World

Source: Winter of the World

“The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions.”

Ken Follett book Edge of Eternity

Source: Edge of Eternity

“Hunger is the best seasoning.”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

“Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.”

Ken Follett

“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 book Fall of Giants

Source: Fall of Giants

“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.”

Ken Follett

“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.”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

“She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

“Little things please little minds.”

Ken Follett book Fall of Giants

Source: Fall of Giants

“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.”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

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