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.
More Quotes by Naomi Alderman
The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.
You learn the most from sitting down and doing the work, regularly, patiently, sometimes in hope, sometimes despairingly.
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.
The gaming world isn't filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it's mostly enchanting.
The thing about having true fans, it seems, is that they remain loyal to their idea of what the work meant to them. And that might make them more exacting than the toughest studio executive or publishing boss.
I get migraines. I've had them all my life; so has my dad. So did his grandmother, although back then they called them 'sick headaches.'