Dystopian Author Quotes

Max Barry That’s the thing you learn about values: they’re what people make up to justify what they did.

Max Barry People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they’ll spend all day telling you who they are.

Max Barry Corporations! It’s like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don’t mind that they’re monsters because when we look at them […]

Harry Turtledove You count snouts,” Straha said. “Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does […]

Harry Turtledove People were as they were, not not as he wished them to be.

Harry Turtledove I’m a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly

Harry Turtledove People you don’t like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.

Harry Turtledove You can write better about a place you’ve seen for yourself. You don’t have to have been there – I’ve sure written about places […]

Harry Turtledove I do first draft in longhand, which saves a lot of rewriting. I try to get a certain amount done each day. Don’t always, […]