James Dashner is an author in the Science Fiction section. He has wrote many books, but his most iconic books are in The Maze Runner series. The first book alone has sold over 6.5 million copies.

James Dashner

James Dashner was born in Georgia and spent his whole childhood there. But as life went on he decided to go into the writing industry and write two award winning series; The Maze Runner Series and the Mortality Doctrine Series.

Awards

The Maze Runner Series has given James Dashner many awards:

• New York State Charlotte Award
• Kentucky Bluegrass Award
• Oregon Reader’s Choice Award
• New Hampshire Isinglass Teen Read Award
• Missouri Truman Readers Award
• Illinois Abraham Lincoln Award
• Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award
• Arizona Grand Canyon Reader Award
• Georgia Peach Book Award
• New Jersey Garden State Book Award

Quotes

• “If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.” – James Dashner, The Maze Runner
• “Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.” – James Dashner, The Death Cure
• “Such a display of death – how could it be considered a victory?” – James Dashner
• “I sent a lot of publishing ideas to my publisher, about 30 of them. Each time except 3, i got a “rejection letter”. This is basically what a rejection letter is like: Hello Pathetic Moron, We read your book. It sucked. Don’t send us another one. If you do, we will run over your grandmother with a bus. Don’t Do It. From, Your Publisher” – James Dashner
• “WICKED is good.” – James Dashner, The Maze Runner