Dystopian Quotes

I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.

Samantha Shannon

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

Maggie Stiefvater

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I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.

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That's what 'Star Trek' was: We don't know how to make an ideal society, but we're going to portray that, and then we're going to work backward. I think that's why science fiction - despite the dystopian parts - comes out of this super ideal that, eventually, we will get to some better place where we actually live up to our ideals.

Margot Lee Shetterly

I think people respond to dystopian stories because they're ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the future. So much media's coming at you over the Internet, your brain gets overloaded. You don't know what to do with it. And one thing you can do with it is read a story.

Suzanne Collins

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I've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.'

Alexander Skarsgard

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Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

John Twelve Hawks

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I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

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Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.

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Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

Lauren DeStefano

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I think of dystopian as 'Mad Max,' as 'Book of Eli,' as the world is ending.

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

Brittany Howard

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It's a dystopian world where things aren't connected. But life feels light when we can communicate, joke or laugh on ourselves.

Ashish Vidyarthi

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