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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old. "

" 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. "

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

" I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" Sometimes you feel like the people who invest in hate are winning. Then you just want to talk about love and what it really means to love yourself. "

" Competitive sports may be where exercise becomes 'fun' for children who are good at it, but for those who are less talented, it is where exercise becomes not only physically demanding but also emotionally painful and socially humiliating. "

" I wish that positions of power dependent on education were as open to abused children, poor children, working-class children as they are to the children of the rich and successful. I really wish that were true. "

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

" Feminists are asking the practical questions about how you want to live your life. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "