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" For years, I looked down on my mother for shopping at Asda, and now I feel very ashamed of it. "

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" You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed; there has to be a way for the audience to get in and participate. I think that's a massively valuable discipline for any artist. "

" I find the sneeriness about 'selfie-culture' quite boring - I'm excited by young people taking control of their own images and finding out for themselves how much Photoshop has done for models. "

" 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. "

" We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known. "

" My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year old. "

" Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving. "

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

" Writing is investigation. "

" Attending a book group is always a salutary experience for a writer. There's no guarantee that the people there will have enjoyed your book, and, as anyone who has taken part in a book group will know, half the fun is in ripping a book you haven't liked to shreds. "

" My childhood was full of shocks and alarums, and I had to work a long time to make a life that pleases me. "

" What I want is a world where neither gender nor sex are destiny. Where no child is ever told there's anything they can't do, or must do, 'because you're a boy' or 'because you're a girl.' It's not a world where anything is 'taken' from anyone - it's one where everyone's possibilities are enlarged. "

" I am someone who really would like to see more women in government, but Palin makes me cringe every time I hear about her. "

" 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. "

" The thing about having true fans, it seems, is that they remain loyal to their idea of what the work meant to them. And that might make them more exacting than the toughest studio executive or publishing boss. "

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

" Computer games can be works of art and literature - they're still developing. The stories they can tell, and the experiences they provide, are increasingly sophisticated and glorious. "

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

" I listen to terrible music when exercising. I mean, like, early Madonna, Boney M, the Fratellis, Shakira... I can't claim interesting musical taste. "

" I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures. "

" More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life. "

" As someone who went to school in the '70s and '80s, I can't say that I noticed much of a 'medals for all' culture myself. "

" The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I wish we could all agree just to wash it all away. Begin again. "

" 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. "

" In general, I'd rather ask questions and look stupid than keep quiet and not understand what someone's talking about. "

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

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

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

" 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. "