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

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

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

" 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 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.' "

" 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. "

" I think when I was 7, at school they got us all to write the story of Joseph and his brothers. I got a bit carried away and wrote 12 pages - everybody else wrote a page. The teacher was so impressed by it that she put it up on the wall for parents' evening. I thought, 'Oh, this is something that I really like that I also seem to be quite good at.' "

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

" Traditions are always puzzling to those who don't share them. I'm Jewish, so the idea of a 'perfect family Christmas' is foreign to me. "

" I really hope that men read 'The Power' and watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' and read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' "

" If I'm working every day, it's like pumping a pump. When you start, rusty water comes out, and then it runs clear. I do it even if I get completely stuck. "

" 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. "

" You learn the most from sitting down and doing the work, regularly, patiently, sometimes in hope, sometimes despairingly. "

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

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

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

" I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "