It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
After the novel was published, I came to feel that I couldn't call myself Orthodox anymore. It's so patriarchal, anti-women, anti-gay. There… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Expect to be disgusted by your own early work. If writing is your vocation, if you hope that it might be your… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
I had a year of panic attacks. I was feeling really pressured, like I could never do it again. With a first… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
I think when I was 7, at school they got us all to write the story of Joseph and his brothers. I… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Attending a book group is always a salutary experience for a writer. There's no guarantee that the people there will have enjoyed… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not. Tap on… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share
Our culture tends to denigrate things that are associated with women. It's OK for women to wear trousers, for example, but not OK for… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share
I was there on 9/11. I watched the towers falling from my office window, at which point I decided I would give up my… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share
The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share
Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero every time… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share
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… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share
Games don't cause racism. But the real-time chat makes nasty comments hard to moderate and easy to spread. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share
“She had been here for the protests three years earlier; yes, she had held up her banner and shouted and signed her petitions. “It… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share
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… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share
The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share
“intuition is just like that: sudden and complete, as if there were machinery working behind her eyes that even she has no access to.… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share
Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share
