Dan Brown

I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself. ”

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

I love the gray area between right and wrong. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

I spent some time in India and thought I might write about Hinduism. But it's so far removed from my experience I couldn't even get my mind around it to write about it. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”