Max Brooks

“Adversity introduces us to ourselves.”

— Max Brooks

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this.…

— Max Brooks

A true crisis. Class 3 outbreaks, more than any other, demonstrate the clear threat posed by the living dead. Zombies will number…

— Max Brooks

During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor…

— Max Brooks

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling…

— Max Brooks

“But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past? Will future generations care as much for chronologies and…

— Max Brooks

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

— Max Brooks

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

— Max Brooks

After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each…

— Max Brooks

“Who knows what we could have accomplished if we had only chucked the politics and come together as human bloody beings.”

— Max Brooks

“fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.” That blew me away. “Turn on the TV,” he’d say. “What are you…

— Max Brooks

“The book of war, the one we've been writing since one ape slapped another, was completely useless in this situation. We had…

— Max Brooks

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

— Max Brooks

“His last words: "On ne passé pas!”

— Max Brooks

“Feelings of any kind are not known to the walking dead. Every form of psychological warfare, from attempts at enraging the undead…

— Max Brooks

Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have…

— Max Brooks

...because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to "normal," once our kids or grandkids grow up in a…

— Max Brooks

“Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear-all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human "heart" are as useless…

— Max Brooks

Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, "More brains." There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated…

— Max Brooks

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

— Max Brooks

Use your head; cut off theirs.

— Max Brooks

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

— Max Brooks

“It is my fault, and the fault of everyone of my generation. I wonder what the future generations will say about us.…

— Max Brooks

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

— Max Brooks

Organize before they rise!

— Max Brooks