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
It is always darkest before the dawn.
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
This year's winner ... exemplified the spirit of cooperation as essential to getting things done.
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may.
Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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.
There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
Of course you can't stop. It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion-good or bad. Your problem is that you're giving it the wrong fuel.
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.
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 remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.
I love the gray area between right and wrong.