Max Barry
Born 1973
From Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Nationality: Australia · Writes fiction
Quotes
“Corporations! It’s like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don’t mind that they’re monsters because when we look at them they smile and hand us cheeseburgers. That’s nuts.”
Great Writing interview “It’s much easier to be incomprehensible than intelligent, and most people can’t spot the difference.”
Syrup, Chapter 2 “Senior Management may have been incompetent; it may have been corrupt; it was certainly full of assholes—but they were their incompetent, corrupt assholes.”
Company, p. 294 “Ninety-five percent of all jobs suck, Jones. That’s why people get paid to do them.”
Company, p. 112 “mktg case study #2: mktg cola / NEVER, NEVER DISCUSS TASTE. TASTE IS 90 PERCENT PSYCHOLOGICAL AND IT DOESN’T SELL COLA; IT’S ROUGHLY A TENTH AS IMPORTANT AS IMAGE. THERE HAVE BEEN STUDIES.”
Syrup, Chapter 2
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Max Barry in order
Books by Max Barry in the order they were published, from Jennifer Government (2003) to Lexicon (2013).
