Dan Brown Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?

  Dan Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

• Time is a river, and books are boats.

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  Book, Rivers, Boat

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.1025, Random House

• I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.

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  Book, Moments, Inferno

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.402, Knopf

• These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time." Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail." "I was referring to the Bible." Faukman cringed. "I knew that.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Eye, Holy Grail

  Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

• The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Fall, Men

  Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

• Why do you think the Bible has survived thousands of years of tumultuous history Why is it still here Is it because its stories are such compelling reading Of course not...but there is a reason. There is a reason Christian monks spend lifetimes attempting to decipher the Bible. There is a reason that Jewish mystics and Kabbalists pore over the Old Testament. And that reason Robert is that there exist powerful secrets hidden in the pages of this ancient book...a vast collection of untapped wisdom waiting to be unveiled.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Powerful, Book

• The woman dashed up the staircase toward the library's main doors. Arriving at the top of the stairs, she grabbed the handle and tried desperately to open each of the three giant doors. The library's closed, lady. But the woman didn't seem to care. She seized one of the heavy ring-shaped handles, heaved it backward, and let it fall with a loud crash against the door. Then she did it again. And again. And again. Wow, the homeless man thought, she must really need a book.

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  Book, Fall, Men

• Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

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  Book, Would Be, Easier

• "Both Christianity and Islam are logocentric," he told his students, "meaning they are focused on the Word. In Christian tradition, the Word became flesh in the book of John: 'And the Word was made flesh, and He dwelt among us. 'Therefore, it was acceptable to depict the Word as having a human form. In Islamic tradition, however, the Word did not become flesh, and therefore the Word needs to remain in the form of a word … in most cases, calligraphic renderings of the names of the holy figures of Islam."

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Book, Islamic

  "Inferno".

• 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.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Writing, Years

• The Book of Reveal-ation in the Bible predicts an unveiling of great truth and unimaginable wisdom. The Apocalypse is not the end of the world, but rather it is the end of the world as we know it. The prophesy of the Apocalypse is just one of the Bible's beautiful messages that has been distorted.

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  Inspirational, Beautiful, Book

  Dan Brown (2009). “The Lost Symbol: (Robert Langdon Book 3)”, p.410, Random House

• To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.

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  Book, Touching, Library

  Dan Brown (2009). “The Lost Symbol: (Robert Langdon Book 3)”, p.12, Random House

• Books make great gifts because they can unveil hidden secrets.

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  Book, Secret, Hidden Secrets

• 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. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Writing, Simple

• I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

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  Mistake, Book, Reading

• I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

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  Morning, Book, Writing

• I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Thinking, Views

  "Six days until 'The Lost Symbol' hits stores" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2009.

• We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

  Dan Brown

  Growing Up, Memories, Book

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