Dan Brown Quotes

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.

I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

I wanted to write.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

I just write what I want to write.

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I write what I'm interested in.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I'm open to writing just about anything. I love writing the books that I write. They do tend to be on dark subjects, but I don't think of myself necessarily as a dark-humored person. I like having a lot of fun.

I feel, as an artist, it's important for me to write, and that's a big part of what my journey is - being able to write my stories and talk about stuff.

Anything that feels like good characters, I am excited to do whether I write it or not. But if I don't find it in the world, I will write it myself.

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.