Max Brooks Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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 bring water with you because it'll tire you out and you'll lose too much fluid. Bring a water pump.”

“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.”

“Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a real job on a sitcom or something, and have my zombie books to remind myself I was still a writer at heart. I never thought I could actually pay my bills and write what I wanted.”

“I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.”

“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 in fear of the apocalyptic times.”

“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 actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.'”

“Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.”