I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in. — Max Brooks Mind Copy Share Image
Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells. — Max Brooks Emotion Copy Share Image
“Why would I want to get depressed by watching TV? I could do that just by stepping on the scale every morning.” — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“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 Book Copy Share Image
Zombies are apocalyptic. I think that's why people love them because we're living in, not apocalyptic times, but I think we're living… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
With so much protection, wouldn't one be able to wander among the undead ranks, taunting them at will with no danger of… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“...and that bastard Breckinridge Scott, yes, the Phalanx king, still hiding like a rat in his Antarctic Fortress of Scumditude. --Arthur Sinclair” — Max Brooks World war z Copy Share Image
“Who knows what we could have accomplished if we had only chucked the politics and come together as human bloody beings.” — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm not a horror fan. I'm an anti-horror fan. I think horror fans feel deep down in the pit of their souls,… — Max Brooks Bored Copy Share Image
“You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.” — Max Brooks Choice Copy Share Image
I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“Unlike the escapee, your team of hunters will be out during the brightest, hottest, most excruciating part of the day. Make sure… — Max Brooks Hunters Copy Share Image
“[He] believed both love and hate to be irrelevant. To him, they were "impediments of the human condition," and, in his words… — Max Brooks Human condition Copy Share Image
Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible… — Max Brooks Army Copy Share Image
“Jesus, you'd think the Black Death was sweeping the globe every three months or so...ebola, SARS, avian flu. You know how many… — Max Brooks Black death Copy Share Image
They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People… — Max Brooks Challenges Copy Share Image
They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist… — Max Brooks Attraction Copy Share Image
“Fear,” he used to say, “fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.” That blew me away. “Turn on the TV,”… — Max Brooks Fear Copy Share Image
“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 Fear Copy Share Image
“[…] mines don’t work that way. They don’t blow up a human body, they take off a leg or ankle or the… — Max Brooks Family Copy Share Image
“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 History Copy Share Image
If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block.… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“And then they came, right out of the smoke like a freakin’ little kid’s nightmare! Some were steaming, some were even still… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“The living dead had taken more from us than land and loved ones. They'd robbed us of our confidence as the planet's… — Max Brooks Hope Copy Share Image
[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy,… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“I can't tell you if this is the right path; the future is too mountainous to see to far ahead. ... Only… — Max Brooks Journey Copy Share Image
“only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. “Fear,” he used… — Max Brooks Economics Copy Share Image
“From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and "They told me to do… — Max Brooks Freedom Copy Share Image
“You should have seen some of the “careers” listed on our first employment census; everyone was some version of an “executive,” a… — Max Brooks Career Copy Share Image
Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack. — Max Brooks Education Copy Share Image
I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have… — Max Brooks America Copy Share Image
Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears. — Max Brooks Darkness Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a… — Max Brooks Epic Copy Share Image
“I’m not going to say the war was a good thing. I’m not that much of a sick fuck, but you’ve got… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes?… — Max Brooks Crime Copy Share Image
![“[He] believed both love and hate to be irrelevant. To him, they were "impediments of the human condition," and, in his words again, "imagine what could be accomplished if the human race would only shed its humanity.” quote by Max Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/732/max-brooks-2735_human-condition_he-believed-both-love-and-hate-to-be-irr_2017180.png)
![“They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today. [...] I don't know if great times make great men…” quote by Max Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ed/max-brooks-2735_challenges_they-say-great-times-make-great-men-i-do_390485.png)
![“[…] mines don’t work that way. They don’t blow up a human body, they take off a leg or ankle or the family jewels. That’s what they’re designed for, not to kill people, but to wound ‘em so the army will spend valuable resources keeping them alive, and then send ‘em home in a wheelchair so Ma and…” quote by Max Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26d/max-brooks-2735_family_mines-don-t-work-that-way-they-don-t-blo_978516.png)
![“[...]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.” quote by Max Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eee/max-brooks-2735_enough_you-don-t-have-to-be-sun-freakin-tzu-to_182431.jpg)
