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'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables. ”

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. ”

I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress. ”

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. ”

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

The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.' ”

Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief. ”

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine. ”

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power. ”