English - Novelist | 1974 -
No human quality belongs to only one class of person. We all get to be both aggressive and loving. We all get to delight in our careers and revel in our children. We're all kind and brave, soft and hard, sciency and artsy, interested in being looked at and in admiring others' physical form. Everything.
Naomi Alderman
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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.
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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.
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I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the world.
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You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed; there has to be a way for the audience to get in and participate. I think that's a massively valuable discipline for any artist.
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I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction.
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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.
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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.'
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When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.
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If I'm working every day, it's like pumping a pump. When you start, rusty water comes out, and then it runs clear. I do it even if I get completely stuck.
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For years, I looked down on my mother for shopping at Asda, and now I feel very ashamed of it.
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I think some people's brains have more of a natural bent towards God than others.
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