I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction.

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.

I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the world.

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.

I feel powerful when I'm onstage talking to an audience. I like communicating; it feels like my calling in the world. Knowing what you're meant to be doing with your life is pretty bloody powerful.

The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I wish we could all agree just to wash it all away. Begin again.

I don't think I have any particular problem with God.

I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience.

There's some really good stuff in the way I was brought up. There's some really rubbish stuff as well.

I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith.

I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures.

The worst things that ever happened to me were before I was 20. It has been slow, hard-won improvement since then.

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 was something about writing 'Disobedience'... it felt like I had put it all in the book. I had done my best by it, recorded what it meant for me. I felt I was done.

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.

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.

It is a very different feeling to be in a fat body that is moving a lot to one that hardly moves at all. It feels like love. As simple and as joyful as that.

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.'

The truth is, none of us is OK, not really. The best, most dear, most thoughtful and engaged and open and feminist men in my life have occasionally come out with some statement that's made me gasp. Then again, so have almost all the women.

I've been paid less than men I worked with who contributed less to the project.

In general, I'd rather ask questions and look stupid than keep quiet and not understand what someone's talking about.

No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old.

It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head.

It's hard to describe why one room and not another feels right for writing. Of course you have to train yourself to be able to write anywhere, but it's nice to feel that each book has a place that belongs to it, where it's home.

I find the sneeriness about 'selfie-culture' quite boring - I'm excited by young people taking control of their own images and finding out for themselves how much Photoshop has done for models.