Max Brooks quotes - page 3

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night. (Max Brooks)
I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in. View quote
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I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had. View quote
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When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in. View quote
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I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.' View quote
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I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.' View quote
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Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a real job on a sitcom or something, and have my zombie books to remind myself I was still a writer at heart. I never thought I could actually pay my bills and write what I wanted. View quote
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You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all. View quote
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Survival is the key word to remember-not victory, not conquest, just survival. View quote
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Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products. View quote
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Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. (Max Brooks)
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. View quote
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I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe. View quote
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When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was "Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy... View quote
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I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from. View quote
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I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing 'World War Z Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid. View quote
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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. View quote
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I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live. View quote
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You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'. View quote
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Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear - all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human "heart” are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows if this is humanity's greatest weakness or strength? The debate continues, and probably will forever. View quote
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Attack. When I first heard that word, my gut reaction was, "oh shit". Does that surprise you? Of course it does. You probably expected "the brass" to be just champing at that bit, all that blood and guts, "hold 'em by the nose while we kick 'em in the ass" crap. I don't know who created the stereotype hard-charging, dim-witted, high school football coach of a general officer. Maybe it was Hollywood, or the civilian press, or maybe we did it to ourselves, by allowing those insipid, egocentric clowns- the MacArthurs and Halseys and Curtis E. LeMays- to define our image to the rest of the country. Point is, that's the image of those in uniform, and it couldn't be further from the truth. (Max Brooks)