Max Brooks Quotes About Zombies

Quotes about: Zombies

• That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary.

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, Doors, Feet

  "'I’m Just A Zombie Nerd' The Max Brooks Interview, Part One". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 15, 2010.

• Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.

  Max Brooks

  Two, Water, Childhood

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.145, Broadway Books

• Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

  Max Brooks

  School, Zombie, Protection

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.79, Broadway Books

• Use your head; cut off theirs.

  Max Brooks

  Halloween, Cutting, Zombie

• With so much protection, wouldn't one be able to wander among the undead ranks, taunting them at will with no danger of repercussion?

  Max Brooks

  Zombie, Able, Protection

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.59, Broadway Books

• The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls-no matter what their label-these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself.

  Max Brooks

  Ghouls, Humanity, Zombie

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.13, Broadway Books

• A true crisis. Class 3 outbreaks, more than any other, demonstrate the clear threat posed by the living dead. Zombies will number in the thousands, encompassing an area of several hundred miles.

  Max Brooks

  Class, Numbers, Zombie

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.25, Broadway Books

• Of all the weapons discussed in this book, nothing is more important than your primary firearm. Keep it cleaned, keep it oiled, keep it loaded, keep it close. With a cool head, steady hand, and plenty of ammunition, one human is more than a match for an army of zombies.

  Max Brooks

  Book, Army, Hands

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.41, Broadway Books

• 1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don't need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.

  Max Brooks

  Moving, Cutting, Hair

• The dead walk among us.

  Max Brooks

  Zombie, Walks

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.13, Broadway Books

• Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with failure. Even in the case of ladders, when simple hand-over-hand coordination is required, only one in four zombies will succeed.

  Max Brooks

  Simple, Hands, Zombie

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.14, Broadway Books

• During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against "dangerous thought." Whether accounts of zombie attacks perished in the flames will never be known. This obscure section of a medical manuscript, preserved in the wall of an executed Chinese scholar, might be proof of such attacks.

  Max Brooks

  Wall, Book, Flames

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.186, Broadway Books

• Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, "More brains." There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated by Hollywood, which I think is very irresponsible because it can get you killed.

  Max Brooks

  Running, Thinking, Night

  "'I’m Just A Zombie Nerd' The Max Brooks Interview". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 15, 2010.

• 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.

  Max Brooks

  Writing, Zombie, Survival

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 9, 2010.

• 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

  Race, Class, Zombie

• Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All they know how to do is swarm and feed.

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  Memories, Zombie, Trying

• 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.

  Max Brooks

  Jobs, Real, Book

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

  Max Brooks

  Sleep, Night, Government

• Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

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  Zombie, Nerd, Fiction

  "What College Kids Can Learn From 'The Zombie War'". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 10, 2012.

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

  Max Brooks

  Jobs, Book, Night

• The bottom line is I'm a slow zombie guy - I'm always a slow zombie guy but I also know I'm in the minority.

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  Guy, Zombie, Minorities

• 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.

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  Writing, Zombie, Stories

  "'I’m Just A Zombie Nerd' The Max Brooks Interview, Part One". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 15, 2010.

• I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

  Max Brooks

  Summer, Thinking, Choices

  "'I’m Just A Zombie Nerd' The Max Brooks Interview, Part One". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 15, 2010.

• I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, People, Worry

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