Ep. 256 - Ken Follett: I Want to Write a Bestseller

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Ken Follett is a well-known Welsh novelist who specializes in writing spy thrillers novels and has sold over 160 million copies worldwide. Before he became a novelist he was a reporter for the London Evening News and was a Deputy Managing Director for a small publishing house, Everest Books. In his spare time he wrote novels, but he wrote a dozen before finding success. Eye of the Needle, his eleventh book, was his first successful novel published in 1978. His novel The Pillars of the Earth was on The New York Times bestsellers list for 18 weeks in 1989. This novel has been so incredibly popular all over the world for many years. In 2007 it became the #1 most popular choice on the Oprah Winfrey Book Club and returned to The New York Times bestsellers list at #1. Follett's newest novel, Edge of Eternity, is the final novel of his Century Trilogy and available today! ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:15.4	For several hundred pages, you've got two people gazing at one another across a crowded room
0:21.4	and wishing that they could be alone.
0:24.4	And you put the reader through all that.
0:28.4	And then of course at some point you've got to get the reader the reward.
0:32.0	But the longer we live with these two people wishing for it, the more they and we are going to enjoy it when it actually happens.
0:39.6	Oh my God, that's a great quote for one second.
0:44.6	Of course the book has a beginning and middle and an end, but each chapter should have a beginning and middle and an end.
0:50.0	And within that chapter each scene should have a beginning and middle and an end.
0:54.8	I love this. That exactly applies to life because I feel like people go through the school system, educational system.
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1:52.6	So I am so excited I have Ken Follett here author of this is we're talking about novel number 31 right.
2:00.3	That's correct. Yeah. So a column of fiber not only 31 novels your books have sold over 150 million copies, which is incredible.
2:08.5	I don't know where you are in the list of best selling authors of all time, but put it this way.
2:13.5	You're on the same list that the authors of the Bible are on. So so I'm very excited.
2:18.9	I've been I mentioned you outside. I didn't tell you the book. I've been reading you for about.
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