Quotes About Dystopian Novels

#1. 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

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

Madeleine L'Engle

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

T. Scott McLeod

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

Saint Augustine

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Tracey Steinbach

#8. 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

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

Kiera Cass

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

Sarah Hall

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

Pauline Creeden

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

William Shatner

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

Louise Rennison

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

Charles A. Cornell

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. The law isn't merciful.

Cate Campbell Beatty

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

Barbara Demick

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

Lois Lowry

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

Gregory C. Dugger

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

Juvenile

#22. 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