Lois Lowry Quotes

The kind of dystopian books that I've always loved the most are the ones where you find yourself in a world that's less scorched-earth and instead a world that has just been made different.

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.

What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right? It's familiar enough to be recognizable, and skewed enough to give us pause.

I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

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.

I'm a huge fan of dystopian films. I collect them in my brain.

'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story.

'Snowpiercer' is a little bit more experimental, I think, and crafted for a slightly different audience. 'The Giver' is more about teen angst.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

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

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Stephen King in general, as well as films of the apocalypse from the '70s, had a big influence on 'Zone One.'

I look around, and 50 percent of the big-budget entertainment you are seeing these days is dystopian. This is the era of 'Hunger Games' and blasted landscapes and 'The Walking Dead.'

Dystopia is a very interesting setting. Whether it's '1984' or 'Fahrenheit 451'... Dystopia is a wonderfully cinematic setting.

I want to go to someone's world. I'll buy it if the world is full of zombies - I'll live there if you give me a strong enough vision of what that world looks like.

A lot of people want what I would call sci-fi; people want television to be what they think the world should look like. That is different than what I do.

'Parable of the Sower' is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf. Put it on every shelf. This is one of the all-time great American novels.

Rereading 'Child 44' brought out the novel's meatier pleasures, its ability to create vivid characters in a world both alien to our own and chillingly recognizable.

'The Handmaid's Tale' is a very special story.

Every time I've talked about the Republic of Gilead, I always say, 'The still-fictional Republic of Gilead.'

I read it in college as an assignment. I didn't think about it at the time. But when I heard there was a 'The Handmaid's Tale' pilot, I freaked out.

'The Handmaid's Tale' will blow people away.

'Treme' begins after Hurricane Katrina, and it's a year-by-year account of how everyday people there put their lives back together. It's sort of a testament to, or an argument for why, a great American city like New Orleans needs to be saved and preserved.

Orwell had a very accurate foresight of today's dystopian world we live in. If only he was around to see it.

'The Walking Dead' do such a great job with that world. It is real, but it's also otherworldly; it's strangely theatrical, and I suddenly did become quite invested in the whole zombie phenomenon.