Quotes by Naomi Novik - Page 1

What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.
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War
Dragons
Exciting
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Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.
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Running
Blood
Trying
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Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?
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New York
Believe
Unicorn
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I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.
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Engineers
Two
Two Things
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I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.
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Gold
Should
Sleep
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Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!
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Book
Nice
Said
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Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.
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Conspirators
Deals
Enough
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It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.
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Four
Luck
Three
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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.
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Games
Kind
Real
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Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.
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Influence
Justice
Littles
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I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all watch "Star Trek: Next Generation."
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Female
Stars
Wall
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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.
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Government
Doe
Tired
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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.
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Giving
Heaven
Son
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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.
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Cake
Creative
Novelists
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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.
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Fighting
Leaving
Thinking
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Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.
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Firsts
Sitting Down
Together
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It seems to me that if you wish to apply laws to us, it were only reasonable to consult us on them, and from what you have read to me about Parliament, I do not think any dragons are invited to go there
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Dragons
Law
Thinking
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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.
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Character
Fans
Writing
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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 said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.
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Devil
Thinking
Two
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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 think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility
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Giving Up
Heart
Responsibility
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I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I will help you, and you will do as much for me. Then we do not need to worry, I do not suppose anyone could stop all three of us, at least not before we can escape
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Needs
Three
Worry
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The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what’s simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. It’s like seeing the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter through a 3-D magnifying glass.
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Glasses
Magic
Simple
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You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire that allowed them to resist colonization? What if there were a massive dragon empire in the middle of the interior of southern Africa that decided to take objection to the slave trade?
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Dragons
Southern
Thinking
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I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon)
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Home
Beautiful
Lonely
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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 him, and his head came up with sudden enthusiasm. "If I were very offensive, do you suppose they would go away now?" he asked. "Laurence, what would be particularly insulting" Hammond looked like Pandora, the box open and horrors loose upon the world. Laurence was inclined to laugh, but he stifled it out of sympathy.
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Going Away
Insulting
Laughing
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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; Nitidus could do it best, for his forehands are the smallest. Though it is difficult to keep the animals inside the pen, and the first time I learned how to open it, they all ran away," he added. "Maximus and I had to chase after them for hours and hours--it was not funny at all," he said, ruffled, sitting back on his haunches and contemplating Laurence with great indignation.
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Animal
Simple
Swings
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The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.
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Notebook
Coffee
Thinking
Writing
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