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" I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction. "
Naomi Alderman
Always
Science Fiction
Science
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" 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. "
Naomi Alderman
Games
Tell
Stories
" 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.' "
Naomi Alderman
My Life
Grandmother
Sick
" 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. "
Naomi Alderman
Reach
Know
Perfect
" If something is a problem, it's all right to admit it. "
Naomi Alderman
Admit
Problem
Right
" I don't think I have any particular problem with God. "
Naomi Alderman
Problem
Think
Particular
" I hate to be one of those people who forwards links to 'hilarious pictures' or 'brilliant games' to half their contacts database. "
Naomi Alderman
Pictures
People
Hate
" 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. "
Naomi Alderman
Women
I Wish
Away
" The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence. "
Naomi Alderman
Existence
Life
Ability
" The gaming world isn't filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it's mostly enchanting. "
Naomi Alderman
Gaming
World
Violence
" 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. "
Naomi Alderman
Sense
Skill
Our
" I feel powerful when I'm onstage talking to an audience. I like communicating; it feels like my calling in the world. Knowing what you're meant to be doing with your life is pretty bloody powerful. "
Naomi Alderman
Life
World
Powerful
" What makes 'The Handmaid's Tale' so terrifying is that everything that happens in it is plausible. "
Naomi Alderman
Makes
Happens
Everything
" Claude Cahun is a fascinating artist - one of the few women to be part of the surrealist movement, she and her partner Suzanne Malherbe took on men's names and made artworks that investigated female identity long before 'The Second Sex' or Cindy Sherman. "
Naomi Alderman
Identity
Women
Long
" I've been a comics fan since my first hit of those gateway drawings: Judy, Asterix, and the TV cartoon 'Spider-Man and his Amazing Friend' - which naturally led me to Spider-Man comics. "
Naomi Alderman
First
Cartoon
Amazing
" I am someone who really would like to see more women in government, but Palin makes me cringe every time I hear about her. "
Naomi Alderman
Government
Women
Time
" You learn the most from sitting down and doing the work, regularly, patiently, sometimes in hope, sometimes despairingly. "
Naomi Alderman
Sitting
Doing
Hope
" 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. "
Naomi Alderman
Work
Find
Games
" 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. "
Naomi Alderman
Year
Library
Parents
" 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. "
Naomi Alderman
Simple
Moving
Feeling
" 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. "
Naomi Alderman
Water
Every Day
Day
" 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. "
Naomi Alderman
Artist
Audience
Discipline
" 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. "
Naomi Alderman
Challenges
Problem
World
" 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. "
Naomi Alderman
Destiny
Child
Gender
" I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread. "
Naomi Alderman
Want
Always
Books
" 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! "
Naomi Alderman
God
School
Together
" I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith. "
Naomi Alderman
Sympathy
People
Now
" I listen to terrible music when exercising. I mean, like, early Madonna, Boney M, the Fratellis, Shakira... I can't claim interesting musical taste. "
Naomi Alderman
Early
Interesting
Music
" 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. "
Naomi Alderman
Point Of View
You
View
" It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head. "
Naomi Alderman
Head
Her
Too Much
" 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. "
Naomi Alderman
Experience
You
People