The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings open; Nitidu…

- Naomi Novik

As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a secon…

- Naomi Novik

What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

- Naomi Novik

I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to an…

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I do not care if they do not like me," he said. "Maybe then they will let me alone, and I will not have to stay in China." The thought visibly struck…

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I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat." "The devil!" Berkley sai…

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Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.

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Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I thi…

- Naomi Novik

Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.

- Naomi Novik