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.

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

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-- 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.

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.

True greatness demands humility

Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards

No one will ever touch Elvis

We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

I'm scared shitless of heights.

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.