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.

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.

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.

Change can be beautiful

The curse of men can't make me defiled.I defile myself if I curse men by intention.

It was days like this when I felt it more than ever: I wasn’t a real human.

Lonely and Alone: There's a difference.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

My life is like a stroll upon the beach.

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

Ain't nothing greater than an x-rater with a nickname like Vibrator.

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.