I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
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Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, o... DAN BROWN Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi... STEVEN PINKER I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the... DAN BROWN I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.' IAN MCKELLEN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places a... DAN BROWN Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audien... ELIZABETH KOSTOVA When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd ... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did n... CECILIA DART-THORNTON 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school whe... JAKE T. AUSTIN I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vin... RON HOWARD The best thing that winning those Academy Awards things are - the best thing of it is that when I sa... HASKELL WEXLER My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve ... DAN BROWN I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and se... WOLE SOYINKA When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fan... JANE LINDSKOLD Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowe... RICK DANKO When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between... DAN BROWN One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happene... PENELOPE SPHEERIS I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There w... LYDIA DAVIS I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON Action is my first love. When I first started writing, my favorite movies were 'Raiders of the L... DAVID LESLIE JOHNSON What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the sa... DAVID S. GOYER It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded... GAVIN NEWSOM Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered t... ITALO CALVINO Suntem creatori, dar jucăm naivi, rolul de „creație”. Ne considerăm biete oi neajutorate, mâ... DAN BROWN Ce soartă va avea condiția omenească dacă marile mistere ale vieții vor fi în sfârșit elucid... DAN BROWN Schimbarea este iminentă. Ființa omenească se află în pragul unei noi ere, când își va înto... DAN BROWN A trăi în lume fără a deveni conștient de sensul ei este ca și când ai rătăci într-o mare ... DAN BROWN Adevărul are putere. Iar dacă gravităm cu toții în jurul acelorași idei, o facem poate, întru... DAN BROWN I don't feel when I'm writing that I'm drawing from any other writer, but of course I mu... CHARLES MCCARRY I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a publi... K. A. APPLEGATE The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwa... DWAYNE JOHNSON There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's... DENISE MINA When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of... PHILIP SELWAY I had to take a big risk by writing my young adult book series 'The A Circuit' and putting m... GEORGINA BLOOMBERG I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why ... MADHURI DIXIT Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For ... CHERIE BLAIR For me, it's always about what's on the page. I have tremendous respect for writing. When yo... NESTOR CARBONELL I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and... ED SKREIN Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing th... EDMUND WHITE When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simulta... PAOLO BACIGALUPI I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it... DAVID SEDARIS The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespear... JOHN LOGAN When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well ... KELLEY ARMSTRONG I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodr... DAVID SEDARIS I'm one of those people who has always struggled with emotions and revealing them. When my dog O... JON KATZ It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to ... DAVE HOLLAND Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. Yo... MOBY The thing that was most harmful was that there was always something that was about to happen. So I f... WHIT STILLMAN When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an im... VALERIE JUNE My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a b... GABBY DOUGLAS 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. ... JEFF KINNEY Writing and playing songs is something that I've loved doing since the day I started. It's n... GEORGE EZRA Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith―acceptance of th... DAN BROWN I was working as a software engineer in Infosys. I quit because I lost interest in it. I had a group... NIVIN PAULY It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ... TANITH LEE The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for ... GEORGE SAUNDERS I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a direc... ALEX PETTYFER I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to... JOAN DIDION It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ... DAVID CASSIDY The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that ... RUSSELL BAKER My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's ... TERRENCE HOWARD I think I sort of blossomed, so to speak, around 17. I started to get hips and put on weight, which ... TRICIA HELFER As was the case in 'Darth Plagueis' - even going back as far as 'Cloak of Deception'... JAMES LUCENO I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for ... SAMANTHA HARVEY I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That ... JOHN IRVING I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make m... NEIL GAIMAN I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a fi... MATTHEW REILLY Having done a lot of magazines, I'm very curious how big magazines handle big stories, and I was... DAVID CARSON Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we don't understand. DAN BROWN When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe t... ANNIE LEIBOVITZ Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has ... HALEY REINHART I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ... JOHN WAYNE I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr... JON SCIESZKA When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the oppor... JACK O'BRIEN When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larr... ALLEN IVERSON
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