English - Novelist | 1974 -
The gaming world isn't filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it's mostly enchanting.
Naomi Alderman
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As a gamer, I can't think of anything more annoying for everyone concerned than playing games in a shared living room.
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More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.
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When a marriage founders, this may well be cause for tremendous sadness, but it's not a failure of spirit or character. People change, their goals and dreams alter, their ideas of themselves grow, or they just meet someone they like better.
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I had a year of panic attacks. I was feeling really pressured, like I could never do it again. With a first novel, you put things on hold because it takes so much mental energy and self-belief to keep on writing.
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Computer games can be works of art and literature - they're still developing. The stories they can tell, and the experiences they provide, are increasingly sophisticated and glorious.
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I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.
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Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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