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.

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.

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.

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.

If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haunt your mind!

...it wasn't for the love of a man that she took those chances, but for the love of a horse.

I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.

Don't waste your life believing you can't.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

Another problem is the confrontation with India. Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation).

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.