All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them. And that remains for me to this day the line that I know where it's like, OK, you're not writing fan fiction anymore.
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
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
What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons. - Naomi Novik
What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.
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… - Naomi Novik
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…
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
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…
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
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…
Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will. - Naomi Novik
Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.
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
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.
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… - Naomi Novik
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…
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… - 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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