Max Brooks Professions : Author Born : May 22, 1972 Browse All Authors Top 86 quotes by Max Brooks Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted. Max Brooks matter remember thinking When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no. Max Brooks world-war-z ability believe Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. Max Brooks paranoid secrecy vacuums Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. Max Brooks unemployment disease war Whatever bro, tell it to the whales Max Brooks world-war-z bros whales Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do. Max Brooks army media believe Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race. Max Brooks zombie race class Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival. Max Brooks victory survival keys Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity. Max Brooks world-war-z race humanity We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say “They told me to do it! It’s their fault, not mine.” The freedom, God help us, to say “I was only following orders.”-World War Z Max Brooks war order world 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, but I know they can kill them. Max Brooks hate men war I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them. Max Brooks great-times knows men 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 Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid. Max Brooks smart character war You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'. Max Brooks sleep trying night 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. Max Brooks zombie stories writing Organize before they rise! Max Brooks organize If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse. Max Brooks block fire doors Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong strategy for always coming out ahead. Now, when reality looked more dire than any of his fatalisitic predictions, he had no choice but to turn tail and charge in the opposite direction. Max Brooks rain reality years 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 want to do this. Max Brooks want remember teacher Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist. Max Brooks world-war-z technology worship Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors