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" I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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.' "

" I hate to be one of those people who forwards links to 'hilarious pictures' or 'brilliant games' to half their contacts database. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" After the novel was published, I came to feel that I couldn't call myself Orthodox anymore. It's so patriarchal, anti-women, anti-gay. There was something about writing 'Disobedience'... it felt like I had put it all in the book. I had done my best by it, recorded what it meant for me. I felt I was done. "

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

" Twitter's strength - and its weakness - is that it makes it extremely easy to share every passing thought with everyone on your friends list. "

" We urgently need to address the assumption bound up in our employment laws and custody arrangements that women are the 'natural child carers' and men don't really want much to do with their children. "

" 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. "

" Writing is investigation. "

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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. "