Quotes & Sayings About Dystopian Novels

As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'. — Barbara Demick

The law isn't merciful. — Cate Campbell Beatty

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

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

What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by women that is doing well in the culture. We're seeing more women writing dystopian fiction, more women writing novels set post-apocalyptic settings, subjects and themes that used to be dominated by men. — Laurie Foos

Prince Maxon surveyed the room and found me. Our eye met for a moment, and he smiled. — Kiera Cass

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

I'm pretty sure battle strategies and combat techniques don't cover desire and lust. — Tracey Steinbach

Part of the post-apocalyptic, dystopian trend is that it seems to go hand in hand with young adult novels. Maybe that's because it's not simply the adults who are aware of the current crisis. Teens are the ones who are being told, again and again, that their futures are in jeopardy. The teen years can feel dystopian even in the best of times. But I don't think we realize how much pressure and feeling of doom we're passing down to our teens. — Julianna Baggott

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

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