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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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I hated sports at school. Almost everyone did.

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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.'

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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.

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People who were always hardbodies love that competitive style of team-sports activity: they come up with timers and fitness contests and personal bests. But for the vast majority of people, competition in exercise is not fun. It's no fun to compete if you know you can never win.

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I'd been to an Orthodox Jewish primary school where, every morning, the boys said, 'Thank you God for not making me a woman.' If you put that together with 'The Handmaid's Tale' in your head, something will eventually go fizz! Boom!

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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