Quotes from Dan Brown

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.'

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.

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.

When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.

When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.

The truth, however, was stranger still.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

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.

Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.

Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained

Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.

The blind see what they want to see.

Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

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.

My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.