Quotes by Max Brooks

Happy but isnt the human factor what connexus a deeply to our past will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for the personal accounts of individuals not so different from themselves.

The truth was, neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor any of the other official and unofficial U.S. intelligence organizations have ever been some kind of all-seeing, all-knowing, global illuminati. For starters, we never hand that kind of funding.

...So I put it out of its misery, if it really was miserable, and tried not to think about it. That was another thing they taught us at Willow Creek: dont write their eulogy, dont try to imagine who they used to be, how they came to be here, how they came to be this. I know, who doesnt do that, right? Who doesnt look at one of those things and just naturally start to wonder? Its like reading the last page of a book... your imagination just naturally spinning. And thats when you get distracted, get sloppy, let your guard down and end up leaving someone else to wonder what happened to you.

But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldnt read. She would say: You can do this. You just dont want to do this.

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but thats another story.

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

“Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how theyre used.”