In regards to being female, I don't really think about it in the same way that other people do. I prefer to focus on my job rather than my gender. I'm still amazed that people think it's a big deal.

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

You can't have bravery without fear...

Games aren't created by writers rocking up to developers saying 'I have this great game story.' It's about establishing relationships and working hand in hand to create something wonderful.

Generally I wouldn't accept work on projects where I didn't agree with the sensibilities behind the main character.

There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.

By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as that's always done during a project's pitching stage.

They are very good reasons why voice acting in games can be so terrible. Writers are in a great position to be able to bridge this gap.

Videogames need more women and are too reliant on male, stubble-covered heroes.

I like to make all my characters interesting. Be they male, female or creatures unknown.

There's the underlying feeling that writing must be easy, because it's all about putting letters together. That's only true in the same way that programming is all about putting numbers together.

We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we don’t see it reflected in history textbooks and in recent memory then it cannot have existed for long.

... nothing that happened could ever hurt the most important part of her, nothing that happened outside herself could ever make her less than what God had meant for her to be.

lie can run but they can’t hide

I think that women are not treated fairly in the media.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.

The best choices will always be the most loving.

People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something that are generated inside of you and that you can relate to you.

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.