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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" As a gamer, I can't think of anything more annoying for everyone concerned than playing games in a shared living room. "

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

" 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. "

" The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time. "

" I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head. "

" 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. "

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

" I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the 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. "

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

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

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

" The hilarity or brilliance of a forwarded link is inversely proportional to the number of people it's sent to. "

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" I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience. "

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