Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
Meaning of the quote
Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers. This means that even writers who don't write thrillers, like stories about mystery and suspense, have been affected by the way movies are made. Things like the way movies use camera angles, music, and pacing have inspired writers of all kinds, not just those who write thrillers.
About Ken Follett
Ken Follett is a best-selling Welsh author known for his thrillers and historical novels. He has sold over 160 million copies of his works, with his commercial breakthrough coming from the spy thriller ‘Eye of the Needle’ in 1978. Follett is also renowned for his Kingsbridge series, which includes the epic ‘The Pillars of the Earth’, one of his most famous works.
More quotes from Ken Follett
In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she’s a strong character. She does change the plot. She’ll often rescue the male character from some situation.
British novelist
I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn’t happen, but it might have.
British novelist
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?’
British novelist
I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.
British novelist
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.
British novelist
The CIA’s research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
British novelist
Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
British novelist
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn’t know that then.
British novelist
An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
British novelist
A very good editor is almost a collaborator.
British novelist
The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.
British novelist
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.
British novelist
Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
British novelist
Be a perfectionist.
British novelist
It was the most romantic plane ever made.
British novelist
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
British novelist
The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.
British novelist
I enjoy learning technical details.
British novelist
My favorite period is World War II, and I’m in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
British novelist
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.
British novelist
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.
British novelist
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.
British novelist
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.
British novelist
Culture clash is terrific drama.
British novelist