Quotes from Dan Brown

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

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

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.

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.

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.

For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.

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

Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.

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.

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

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.

One final bit of advice. The next time a senior administrator of the CIA tells you she has a national-security crisis Leave the bullshit in Cambridge.

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

Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences.

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.

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.

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.

Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.

Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

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.

Technology is changing the way we interact as humans.