Audience Quote by Elizabeth Kostova

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own…

— Dan Brown

'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.

— Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

— Ian Mckellen

Any history buffs, people who like religion, suspense and mystery mixed with history, or anyone who likes 'The Da Vinci Code,' needs to read…

— Bonnie Somerville

First, a confession: I liked 'The Da Vinci Code.' This news is even more of a surprise to me than it might be to…

— Sarah Weinman

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

— Lisa Joy

I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.

— John Lanchester

It's guilty of the very thing that makes kids hate history as a subject when it's taught badly: The Da Vinci Code makes the…

— Stephanie Zacharek

One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how…

— Ben H. Winters

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

— George R. R. Martin

With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the…

— Debra Dean

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

— Peter Heller