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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.

I have great admiration for the fact-checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact-checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.

I spent some time in India and thought I might write about Hinduism. But it's so far removed from my experience I couldn't even get my mind around it to write about it.

I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.

I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'

Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

I like mac and cheese.

The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.

I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.

Technology is changing the way we interact as humans.

I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the White Mountains in the summer, and I had no friends up there. And I would just go play hide-and-seek with my dog and probably had some imaginary friends.

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'

I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.

I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.