The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.
Then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you.
Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.
I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.
I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages. . . I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.
I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.
Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.
I think that an anthill is better than a nest. . . that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million you are freer than in a nest, where all sit around and look at one another, waiting until scientists finally discover ways to make us mind readers. . . . the psychology of the nest is loathsome to me, and I always sympathize with one who flees his nest, even if he flees into an anthill, where it may be crowded but one can find solitude - that most natural, most worthy state of man, that precious and intense state of being conscious of the world and of oneself.
It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.
I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.