We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L’Engle’s ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’ Dan Brown Read Quote
I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it’s almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters. Dan Brown Read Quote
I don’t read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of ‘The Exorcist.’ It was the first and last horror book I’ve ever opened. Dan Brown Read Quote
Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains – I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong. Dan Brown Read Quote
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. And I put on the blinders, and I really – it is, for me, that simple. Dan Brown Read Quote
I’m somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller. Dan Brown Read Quote
I’m fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we’re not quite seeing. Dan Brown Read Quote
I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they’re written from a skeptical point of view. Dan Brown Read Quote
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 Read Quote
