Be a perfectionist.
Ken Follett

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
Ken Follett

I enjoy learning technical details.
Ken Follett

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
Ken Follett

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
Ken Follett

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
Ken Follett

When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'
Ken Follett