When asked to respond to Salman Rushdie's gibe at Later in the evening, at the Penguin Annual Lecture, Brown would repeat himself about ignoring criticism. He had seen the Red Fort, "It was beautiful" and two elephants on the road - "like any good American, I stopped to take pictures." He had been in Delhi for a day when we met on a Monday morning. And do what you gotta do."ĭan Brown was in India last week. If you believe your critics, you become insecure and think, 'Maybe I shouldn't write'. "If you believe your fans, you become lazy and think, 'Ah! They'll read anything'. "In the same way you must ignore people who say wonderful, wonderful things." This is a rehearsed answer, regurgitated over and over again. And cruel jokes and criticism that have lasted a decade. And for Dan Brown, after he wrote The Da Vinci Code in 2003, it came in stages. Success is nearly always accompanied by scrutiny.
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