Dan Brown Quotes

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

Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence.

But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.

Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service.

Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?" Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.

If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

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.

Everyone loves a conspiracy.

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.

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

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.

Her eyes were olive green―incisive and clear.

There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

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

Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.