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

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

" No one should ever feel obliged to speak or to put themselves out publicly online, but I do think it's a good thing to do. The more of us who are women, making our work and just going 'Here I am, here's my work,' the easier it gets for everybody. It's a good thing to do. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it. "

" Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was incredibly inspired by Oprah Winfrey as a young woman. "

" 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. "

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