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Ken Follett

Welsh

June 5, 1949

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I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

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With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

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I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.'

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I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the characters are. I usually spend a year on the outline.

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Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.

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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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