Ken Follett
Related If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's bl... R. L. STINE Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it dow... ROBERT STONE ANTONY BEEVOR C.S. LEWIS AMOR TOWLES SIDNEY SHELDON STEVEN SPIELBERG PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces.GERALD M. WEINBERG TANA FRENCH KAMI GARCIA I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games i... DREW BLEDSOE I have a habit of reading a book for at least 15 minutes a day, and whenever I finish a chapter, I i... THOMAS FRANK Look, it was awesome, ... Winning a championship in Boston was awesome, but I needed to turn the pag... ALAN EMBREE CASSANDRA CLARE I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don'... HAKAN NESSER RICHARD PRICE I didn't write the book in sequence. If I got stuck I started a new chapter. I didn't know where it ... DON SILVER WAYNE GRETZKY GARTH NIX PETER JACKSON QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II I feel very privileged Williams has selected me as one of their race drivers. The team has great her... BRUNO SENNA JEAN M. AUEL JULIA GLASS C.S. LEWIS MELODY BEATTIE I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that... STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline sta... AIMEE CARTER RANBIR KAPOOR JENNA FISCHER PRINCE WILLIAM PRINCESS DIANA CATHERINE THE GREAT KATE MIDDLETON KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS KING JAMES I MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w... WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe... WALLIS SIMPSON
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I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives.... 
Now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which... 
I make extensive outlines before I write a book. I usually know what will happen. I know the charact... 
Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberatel... 
I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids g... 
I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could wri... 
The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which... 
Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chap... 
They're coming in on chapter 48 of a 200-chapter Russian novel. I mean, things happen in year one, e... 
What I did as a hockey player, nobody can ever take it away, ... It's done, it's over. I loved it. I... 
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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... 
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