Quotes About Dystopian Novels

#1. Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.

Sarah Hall

#2. As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.

Barbara Demick

#3. I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'

Lois Lowry

#4. Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

Lauren Oliver

#5. We are each a river with a particular abiding character, but we show radically different aspects of our self according to the territory through which we travel.

David Whyte

#6. I've got the utmost respect for Wayne.

Juvenile

#7. Ninety percent of everything you believe you can achieve in life you will.

Gregory C. Dugger

#8. The law isn't merciful.

Cate Campbell Beatty

#9. People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read fantasy, and they're like, 'Oh I love fantasy.' I don't know that people are necessarily finishing 'Hunger Games' and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.

David Levithan

#10. The ablest and most effective leaders do not hold to a single style; they may be highly supportive in personal relations when that is needed, yet capable of a quick, authoritative decision when the situation requires it.

John W. Gardner

#11. The fuel for imagination comes from the feeling in your heart.

Charles A. Cornell

#12. What in the name of Buddha's bra is he going on about now?

Louise Rennison

#13. The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.

William Shatner

#14. You don't have to be faster than a bullet, you just need to be smarter than the man holding the gun.

Pauline Creeden

#15. Prince Maxon surveyed the room and found me. Our eye met for a moment, and he smiled.

Kiera Cass

#16. I'm pretty sure battle strategies and combat techniques don't cover desire and lust.

Tracey Steinbach

#17. For all other writings should point to the Scriptures, as John pointed to Christ; when he said, "He must increase, but I must decrease." [John 3:30]

Martin Luther

#18. So, what do you know about life when you're eighteen? The rest of your life is nothing but a bunch of big beautiful tomorrows.

Lauren Abrams

#19. No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

Saint Augustine

#20. Do you want love, or do you want control?

T. Scott McLeod

#21. When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right.

Madeleine L'Engle

#22. The best novels capture the times in which the writer lives, which accounts for the current, if contrasting taste for lost utopias and dystopian nightmares peopled by vampires and wolves.

Chloe Thurlow