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

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

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

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

" I think some people's brains have more of a natural bent towards God than others. "

" It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head. "

" I don't think I have any particular problem with God. "

" Gaming is our cultural bogeyman - we blame it for everything from child obesity to violence to short attention spans. But any explanation that fits every situation ultimately explains nothing. "

" Too many keep-fit ideas are designed for those who are already fit, and they're just no fun. "

" I had a year of panic attacks. I was feeling really pressured, like I could never do it again. With a first novel, you put things on hold because it takes so much mental energy and self-belief to keep on writing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's absolutely delightful to get dressed up for a lovely evening, but when it goes from being a fun thing to being a chore, and a chore that men don't have to do, then we need to think about it differently. "

" As a gamer, I can't think of anything more annoying for everyone concerned than playing games in a shared living room. "

" The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence. "

" 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 honestly can't think of many more truly romantic gestures than a really well-thought-through prenuptial agreement. "

" No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old. "

" I wish it were true that every child had access to an education that helped them reach their full potential. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When a marriage founders, this may well be cause for tremendous sadness, but it's not a failure of spirit or character. People change, their goals and dreams alter, their ideas of themselves grow, or they just meet someone they like better. "

" I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience. "

" Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers. "

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

" For millennia, human beings have been finding new ways to look at the world through each others' eyes: from projecting ourselves onto the characters in novels or movies to dressing up in costume to devouring the details of some celebrity's life in 'Hello' or 'OK.' "

" I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread. "

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

Science Fiction

" It is a very different feeling to be in a fat body that is moving a lot to one that hardly moves at all. It feels like love. As simple and as joyful as that. "

" 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. "