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.

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

In general, I'd rather ask questions and look stupid than keep quiet and not understand what someone's talking about.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.