Michelle Dean Quotes

I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did not live up to the hype.

'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

Long story short: E. L. James is a hero.

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time', it is already out of fashion.

Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him.

Once I got the Lone Ranger role, I didn't want any other.

I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.

'Straight Outta Compton' is not a story we didn't know about or anything like that, but it's just something that resonated really well... It had no choice but to explode.

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

It's very surreal. It seems like everywhere I go, people always talk about 'Indiana Jones,' and I realized over the years it has made a huge impact on their childhoods... I feel very fortunate to be a part of this.

I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels And Demons' are, by far, Brown's best works.

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'