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Josh Malerman

(1975) Novelist

18 quotes in 25 categories

Josh Malerman is a novelist.

Quick Facts About Josh Malerman

Born: July 24, 1975
Profession: Novelist

About Josh Malerman

[Wikidata] American novelist, singer and songwriter... | [Wikipedia] Josh Malerman is an American novelist, songwriter, movie director, film producer, cartoonist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band The High Strung. He is best known for writing horror and his post-apocalyptic novel, Bird Box (2014), which was the inspiration of the Netflix film Bird Box. In 2020, h

Quotes by Josh Malerman

“It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”

Madness

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“War is embarrassing, Mom would say. And none of this fighting will mean anything in ten years. Of course she was both…

Right and wrong

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“It’s the spaces between words, the downbeats in a conversation in which two people feel bad for having fought.”

Communication

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“What was dark but the absence of light?”

Dark

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“Don’t get killed,” Marla says. “I won’t.” “Oh yeah?” “That’s not my story. Not how my story is gonna end.” “That’s just…

Oh yeah

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“Philosophy doesn’t travel at the same speed technology does. It takes a man forty years to realize what it took his father…

Parenting

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“She’d heard of people, adults usually, intentionally turning a good thing into a bad thing. When things were going good, adults liked…

Bad thing

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“America doesn’t need you, son. America needs a psychiatrist.”

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“Maybe it’s because people can’t see the end that they agree to begin.”

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“By 1914 the world wised up. And you know what we got out of it? Do you know what thousands of years…

Bright colors

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“Sometimes things just got too complicated. Something unwanted was added to something wanted and blew the whole thing apart.”

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“Wires run from under the back door into the first-floor bedrooms, where amplifiers alert Malorie and the children to any sounds coming…

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“How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can't lift their heads to gaze upon…

Children

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“How can any man know how serious he is about something he says he’s going to do until he does it?”

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“You are saving their lives for a life not living.”

Life

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“There are five thousand species of insect and animal who are hidden, watching us, listening to us right now. And we figured…

Right now

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“Don’t dream of anything too horrible,” she says. “And if you do, just add a naked woman on roller skates. That always…

Bad dream

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“If there’s one thing that stands out above all others in my research, it’s that history doesn’t sit still. Doesn’t sit silent.…

History

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