Dan Brown
Dan Brown
Daniel "Dan" Brownis an American author of thriller fiction who is best known for the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code. Brown's novels are treasure hunts set in a 24-hour period, and feature the recurring themes of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, and conspiracy theories. His books have been translated into 52 languages, and as of 2012, sold over 200 million copies. Three of them, Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, and Inferno, have been or are being adapted...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 June 1964
CityExeter, NH
CountryUnited States of America
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.
That is the clear piece of evidence to me that Holy Blood, Holy Grail was not around when I wrote the synopsis.
Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.
It's important in a situation like this to keep everybody positive. I've told the kids that things like this happen in life. It's a matter of how you learn to handle these things.
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.
This is the strangest start to a season I've ever had. It's been a really bizarre start. We haven't been able to field the same lineup for any length of time. In fact, we've had only three or four days with everybody together.
There's a lot of stress, ... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.
It's a shame we don't have a track anymore, ... It used to be full every weekend. There's a lot of people who have to go out of town to race.
although perhaps not in the most traditional sense of the word.
This benefit amounts to $1 million in expense over time. It's a large amount of money.
I see no truth whatsoever in stories of extraterrestrial visitors, crop circles, the Bermuda Triangle, or many of the other "mysteries" that permeate pop culture.
Defensively, in the first half, we played really well.
I cannot possibly tell you the precise date I learned that Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute.