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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.

~Naomi Alderman

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

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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 I find a really exciting thought.

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I think when I was 7, at school they got us all to write the story of Joseph and his brothers. I got a bit carried away and wrote 12 pages - everybody else wrote a page. The teacher was so impressed by it that she put it up on the wall for parents' evening. I thought, 'Oh, this is something that I really like that I also seem to be quite good at.'

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When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.

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For years, I looked down on my mother for shopping at Asda, and now I feel very ashamed of it.

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I think some people's brains have more of a natural bent towards God than others.

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I have a suspicion of lockstep and everyone looking in the same direction: that's a key character trait in me.

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Attending a book group is always a salutary experience for a writer. There's no guarantee that the people there will have enjoyed your book, and, as anyone who has taken part in a book group will know, half the fun is in ripping a book you haven't liked to shreds.

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I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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