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" 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. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" I was there on 9/11. I watched the towers falling from my office window, at which point I decided I would give up my job at a law firm in Manhattan and come back to the U.K. "

" The truth is, none of us is OK, not really. The best, most dear, most thoughtful and engaged and open and feminist men in my life have occasionally come out with some statement that's made me gasp. Then again, so have almost all the women. "

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