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.

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.

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.

The crimson leaf that blew past looked the twin of the one she'd picked up in the palace courtyard: a bloodied hand.

Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt.

Every father wants a daughter to meet the right God, and the right man. Perhaps her father had failed with both.

Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

When the honest, sincere Christian is faced with the decision regarding whether a thing is right or wrong, he should ask, does it agree with all that the Scripture has to say on the subject?

Love demands all, and has a right to all.

The eighties was an era when many companies were asset rich and cash poor.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.