Quotes About Max Brooks

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water - don't bring water with you because it'll tire you out and you'll lose too much fluid. Bring a water pump.

If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.

But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.

Unlike the escapee, your team of hunters will be out during the brightest, hottest, most excruciating part of the day. Make sure each hunter is well supplied with water and antisunstroke accessories.

Denial is an irrational dismissal of danger. Phobia is an irrational fear of one.

Fear is a real, present, right-in-your-face threat. Anxiety comes from a potential—or in this case, future—threat. Fear can be conquered. Anxiety has to be endured.

We were taught that, even if we wore a uniform, that our first sworn duty was to our conscience, no matter what the consequences.

was like…a dam breaking; the taboo was shattered, and the truth just started flooding out. It was…liberating.

For starters, you must understand the inherent difference between a castle and a palace. A

You would have entire suburban neighborhoods of upper-middle-class professionals, none of whom had possessed even the basic know-how to replace a cracked window.

the Jaguar's pilot was ordered to execute "Shiva's Wrath." "Do you know what that means?" Raj-Singh

He knew that fear was the only weapon he had left to save my life and if I didn't fear the threat of the plague, then dammit, I was going to fear him!

Moo," she answered, which could only be taken for "Why not?

PARNELL AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, TENNESSEE

Kwang Jingshu was arrested by the MSS and incarcerated without formal

He motions to what looks like a sharpened steel paddle at his side.] "Pouwhenua"—got it from a Maori brother who used to play for the All Blacks before the war. Bad motherfuckers, the Maori. That battle at One Tree Hill, five hundred of them versus half of reanimated Auckland.

Moo," called an approaching cow, its voice heavy with criticism.

As the author Max Brooks quipped in a 2017 TV appearance, "We need to reevaluate [our current relationship with] online information sort of the way we reevaluated free love in the 80s.

Max Brooks' novel 'World War Z' is one of the greatest zombie stories ever written, partly for reasons that make it basically unfilmable.

The bottom line is I'm a slow zombie guy - I'm always a slow zombie guy but I also know I'm in the minority.

Zombies are apocalyptic. I think that's why people love them because we're living in, not apocalyptic times, but I think we're living in fear of the apocalyptic times.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.