Ken Follett Quotes

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

I'm a beginning, not an end.

In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

My stay in Munich was the scene of my complete liberation.

I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I'm a new artist. It's a chance to start over.

I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

I was a changed being after that fight. I was nothing before. I was a man now.

'Rise' has a lot of different meanings. It's a call to action to rise from the dead and actually live.

Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

I'm passionate about transformation.

He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.