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" Expect to be disgusted by your own early work. If writing is your vocation, if you hope that it might be your salvation, push on through the disgust until you find one true sentence, a few words that say more than you expected, something you didn't know until you set it down. "

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" People who were always hardbodies love that competitive style of team-sports activity: they come up with timers and fitness contests and personal bests. But for the vast majority of people, competition in exercise is not fun. It's no fun to compete if you know you can never win. "

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" Twitter's strength - and its weakness - is that it makes it extremely easy to share every passing thought with everyone on your friends list. "

" There's some really good stuff in the way I was brought up. There's some really rubbish stuff as well. "

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" I wish that positions of power dependent on education were as open to abused children, poor children, working-class children as they are to the children of the rich and successful. I really wish that were true. "

" Utopias and dystopias can exist side by side, even in the same moment. Which one you're in depends entirely on your point of view. "

" I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction. "

" Our culture tends to denigrate things that are associated with women. It's OK for women to wear trousers, for example, but not OK for men to wear skirts. "

" The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability they confer. "

" No one should ever feel obliged to speak or to put themselves out publicly online, but I do think it's a good thing to do. The more of us who are women, making our work and just going 'Here I am, here's my work,' the easier it gets for everybody. It's a good thing to do. "

" We urgently need to address the assumption bound up in our employment laws and custody arrangements that women are the 'natural child carers' and men don't really want much to do with their children. "

" No human quality belongs to only one class of person. We all get to be both aggressive and loving. We all get to delight in our careers and revel in our children. We're all kind and brave, soft and hard, sciency and artsy, interested in being looked at and in admiring others' physical form. Everything. "

" I have a suspicion of lockstep and everyone looking in the same direction: that's a key character trait in me. "

" I've only got anywhere with Minecraft by getting my friends to explain it. "

" I like things that take you by the hand and say, 'You think you know about this - you think you understand it - but there's so much that you don't.' "

" I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old. "

" I am a geek, and proud of it. "

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" I have no wish to offend, but I do think that holy cows need challenging. "

" I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the world. "

" I've been a comics fan since my first hit of those gateway drawings: Judy, Asterix, and the TV cartoon 'Spider-Man and his Amazing Friend' - which naturally led me to Spider-Man comics. "

" The gaming world isn't filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it's mostly enchanting. "

" I get migraines. I've had them all my life; so has my dad. So did his grandmother, although back then they called them 'sick headaches.' "

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

" If something is a problem, it's all right to admit it. "

" When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it. "

" Feminists are asking the practical questions about how you want to live your life. "

" I hope that there are many more women out there writing bits of feminist sci-fi. And men, also - men are allowed to write feminist things. "

" After the novel was published, I came to feel that I couldn't call myself Orthodox anymore. It's so patriarchal, anti-women, anti-gay. There was something about writing 'Disobedience'... it felt like I had put it all in the book. I had done my best by it, recorded what it meant for me. I felt I was done. "

" I was incredibly inspired by Oprah Winfrey as a young woman. "

" I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought. "

" Games don't cause racism. But the real-time chat makes nasty comments hard to moderate and easy to spread. "