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

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Max Brooks
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 22
Author
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Maximillian Michael Brooks
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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.
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Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
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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.
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I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.
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When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy...
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You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.
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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.
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You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.
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Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
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. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.
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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.
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Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.
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Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
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Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.
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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.
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