Quotes from Zoe Quinn

Being able to work in comics at all - I know I came into it from a different medium, but I'd like to stay here. It's not like a weird touristy thing for me.

Mistakes, once owned, apologized for, and buried, need to be an accepted part of life.

I used to be a part-time enthusiast press games writer when I was starting to get into making indie games.

The thing about astroturfing is that it can be really believable.

For me, I don't think there's anything more human than technology. That's a big thing separating us from other animals: we make things, we build things, we create machines.

It sucks to not have any privacy.

I always want to find meaning in stuff that sucks - I don't want it to be the end of the sentence.

I spent my 21st birthday chatting with my online friends because my husband had little interest in celebrating with me, and there was no other group of people I'd rather spend time with, even if they weren't there with me in person.

Ultimately, I love everything about making games, but I've come to hate everything about conventional sustainability, and I know I'm not alone.

People look to me for guidance or responsibility. People put a lot of stuff on me as a symbol of something, which is nothing I opted into, but it's a responsibility I take seriously regardless.

I like the weather in England.

My entire career is online - I create games on the web.

I'm still an engineer at heart. So if I can automate conversations that I find myself keep having to have, it seems like a good opportunity for me.

We need to discuss what our own standards are for games writing that falls outside of journalism, and support experimental formats and routes of production that may be more tailored to them than the status quo, because the public at large seems to still think that the only games writing that exists are reviews and news.

What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.

I'm an independent game developer - there's not exactly an offline version of that. This is where my community is; everybody I'm close to I know because of the Internet.

It's very alienating to become a target, and it can be really difficult to try and explain to people, to family members.

It always makes me super nervous how many tech companies don't have data ethicists.

I don't want to tell a story about how technological advancement is bad.

It's so weird, like, it's not like Gamergate is the only bad thing to happen to me. I've been homeless before, I've had to come through other stuff. A profoundly abusive childhood, but at least that stuff feels like I got to move on from it, that stuff is in the past.

There are few people I can talk to about the worst parts of what happened during Gamergate.

A lot of people need technology to survive. And if you're renting it and you don't own it or have control over it, you're at the mercy of whoever does.

A cool thing about enthusiast press is the low barrier to entry. Anyone can decide they want to set out on this path and start publishing immediately.

You don't really see many games that stand as a pure comedy games.