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 second cake if you wanted to.

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry us! Pray eat something --L.

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

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.

What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

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 anybody.

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.

Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.

I've always wondered how much can you do for your fellow man if your hands are constantly stuck together in Prayers for them?

Something inside me stops the moment I see a mighty mountain.

I was murdered. Even though my heart continued to beat, I was very much deceased. All faded to black

When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

The game of life requires the edge that chiropractic care provides.

Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.