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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" If something is a problem, it's all right to admit it. "

" Writing is investigation. "

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

Science Fiction

" 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. "

" The thing about having true fans, it seems, is that they remain loyal to their idea of what the work meant to them. And that might make them more exacting than the toughest studio executive or publishing boss. "

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

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

" The worst things that ever happened to me were before I was 20. It has been slow, hard-won improvement since then. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't think I have any particular problem with God. "

" 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. "

" Our culture tends to denigrate things that are associated with women. It's OK for women to wear trousers, for example, but not OK for men to wear skirts. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 am a geek, and proud of it. "

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

" More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life. "