Book Quote by Gaylene Preston

I was pleasantly surprised with 'Salvage.' I went to Australia and New Zealand for the novel and met a lot of people who had…

— Jesmyn Ward

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves,…

— Franz Kafka

We are the authors of our own disasters

— Latin Proverb

“The Unthinkable is not a book about disaster recovery; it’s about what happens in the midst—before the police and firefighters arrive, before reporters show…

— Amanda Ripley

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

— Edgar Allan Poe

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

— Samuel Goldwyn

“In fact, I suspect that our only hope is disaster. Cruel tho' it is to say it, there has got to be a vast…

— Edward Abbey

I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents…

— Martha Ronk

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

— Ambrose Bierce

Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

— Dan Ariely

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Apocalyptic literature was created to speak in a powerful way and with a dramatic seriousness that would match the sense of hopelessness and terror…

— William J. Abraham