Dan Brown Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

• 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 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.

  Dan Brown

  Morning, Book, Writing

• 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.

  Dan Brown

  Moving, Writing, Character

• 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

• I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.

  Dan Brown

  Morning, Writing, Seven Days

• I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

  Dan Brown

  Writing, Materials

• Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence.

  Dan Brown

  Writing, Essence, Water

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