Dan Brown Quotes

It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves.

I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' which is like candy.

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a lot of nonfiction.

My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

I don't have time to read nonfiction.

I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.

I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I do end up reading lots of shorter things.

I'll read anything that's good. I have no artificial barriers based on genre.

For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.

I firmly believe that there is no better thriller writer than Harlan Coben.

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

In India, we don't read thrillers; we read authors.

When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up on them.

I am very adventurous with authors, but not very with genres.

I'm not a massive reader of traditional books.

With thrillers, I tend to concentrate on the research and pace more than the characters.