Max Brooks Quotes

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.

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.

The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts

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

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.

Whatever bro, tell it to the whales

Use your head; cut off theirs.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

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

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

The dead walk among us.

Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.

With so much protection, wouldn't one be able to wander among the undead ranks, taunting them at will with no danger of repercussion?

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.

The highest distinction is service to others.

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.

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

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...

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.

I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.

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.

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

The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls-no matter what their label-these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself.

Looking for love on the internet is like Janet Leigh asking Norman Bates if he likes her body.

Organize before they rise!

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.

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.

You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.

You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.