top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Now,
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Now quotes
"Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"VX is now a dead issue... It is political, really."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Ken Follett
"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."
Now
"For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words."
Success
"Most of my stories have some basis in fact."
Fact
"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?'"
Character
"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."
Woman
"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."
Chance
"James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond."
Food
"My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era."
War
"Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative."
Woman
"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit."
Woman
bottom of page