Dan Brown Quotes

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Dan Brown

Profession : Author

Birth : June 22, 1964

I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

Dan Brown

It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

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I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.

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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

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If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'

Dan Brown

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.

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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

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There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.

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I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.

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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

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I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.

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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.

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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'

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I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

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I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.

Dan Brown

It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

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