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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

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

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.

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

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

After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.

Max Brooks
Hands, Ass, Throat
Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.266, Broadway Books

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

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, War, Men

I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.

Max Brooks
Kids, America, Storm

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