Max Brooks Quotes

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• I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.
• 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…
• 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.
• I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.
• 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.
• You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.
• You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.
• 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…
• 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…
• I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to…
• I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their…
• 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…
• 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…
• Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global…
• That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link…
• We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part…
• 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…
• 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…
• We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.
• Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

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