Brad Linaweaver quotes

“Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal responsibility.”
-- Brad Linaweaver

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“It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.”

“I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.”

“The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.”

“When something important is going on, silence is a lie.”

“Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.”

“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”

“It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.”

“I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: Alaina Huffman Talks Smallville, Stargate Universe, and Agent Mom". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. January 27, 2011.

“The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”