English - Novelist | 1974 -
I have a suspicion of lockstep and everyone looking in the same direction: that's a key character trait in me.
Naomi Alderman
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The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence.
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Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers.
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While 'Iron Man' is tremendous fun, it's another reminder of the pressure on all of us to make ourselves increasingly perfect and a little less human. And that is something it is important to resist.
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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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I honestly can't think of many more truly romantic gestures than a really well-thought-through prenuptial agreement.
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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.
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What makes 'The Handmaid's Tale' so terrifying is that everything that happens in it is plausible.
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The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.
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Utopias and dystopias can exist side by side, even in the same moment. Which one you're in depends entirely on your point of view.
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We urgently need to address the assumption bound up in our employment laws and custody arrangements that women are the 'natural child carers' and men don't really want much to do with their children.
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Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving.
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