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Ken Follett

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

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

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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."

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"I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am."

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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"

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"I hate women because they always know where things are."

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"Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances."

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"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?"

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"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."

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"Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women."

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