Ken Follett Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I started writing stories in my spare time.

  Ken Follett

  Writing, Stories, Spare Time

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

  Ken Follett

  Fear, Writing, Credit

• I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

  Ken Follett

  Writing, Character, Thinking

• My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

  Ken Follett

  War, Writing, World

• 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

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "He's a Dylan freak who 'never liked danger'" by David Bowman, www.cnn.com.

• We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.

  Ken Follett

  Writing, Cutting, Long

• I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

  Ken Follett

  Reading, Writing, Research

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin