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" 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. "

Naomi Alderman

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" It's hard to describe why one room and not another feels right for writing. Of course you have to train yourself to be able to write anywhere, but it's nice to feel that each book has a place that belongs to it, where it's home. "

" I find it particularly irritating, if I go to a games conference to speak about my work, that often it's presumed that I'm the marketing girl - that's annoying. "

" 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.' "

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

" Personal trainers, however nice, give me PE teacher flashbacks. "

Naomi Alderman

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Naomi Alderman

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" I'd been to an Orthodox Jewish primary school where, every morning, the boys said, 'Thank you God for not making me a woman.' If you put that together with 'The Handmaid's Tale' in your head, something will eventually go fizz! Boom! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What makes 'The Handmaid's Tale' so terrifying is that everything that happens in it is plausible. "

" 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. "

Naomi Alderman

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Fans

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

" One of the hardest challenges posed by the modern world is how to deal with abundance. It's even harder to confront because admitting that it's a problem seems spoiled. "

" 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.' "

" The women's movement gave me a set of tools to think about things like my body and how people react to me and the way that my dating life was going. It's a very practical movement - yes, it's about issues like how we can get more women MPs elected, but it's also about how feminism affects things like your relationship. "

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

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

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

" I used to think there was something cheap in trying to make beautiful sentences. Now I think language has its own ways and ends, and it does one's thinking good to try to serve them. Beauty isn't truth. But a certain kind of clear beauty will help in the pursuit of truth. "

" I've been paid less than men I worked with who contributed less to the project. "

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

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

" We all know that the desire for perfection can get in the way of authenticity and enjoyment; it's the same with games. There's a completist part to many of us that can't rest until we reach the perfect 100% finish point. "