Quotes by Naomi Novik

Naomi Novik

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.

Character

Fans

Writing

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.

Fighting

Leaving

Thinking

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.

Cake

Creative

Novelists

Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.

Conspirators

Deals

Enough

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.

Doe

Government

Tired

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.

Going Away

Insulting

Laughing

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.

Devil

Thinking

Two

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.”

Female

Stars

Wall

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

Gold

Should

Sleep

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)

Beautiful

Home

Lonely

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Animal

Beautiful

Believe

Blood

Book

Cake

Character

Coffee

Conspirators

Creative

Deals

Devil

Doe

Dragons

Engineers

Enough

Exciting

Fans

Female

Fighting

Firsts

Four

Games

Giving

Giving Up

Glasses

Going Away

Gold

Government

Heart

Heaven

Home

Influence

Insulting

Justice

Kind

Laughing

Law

Leaving

Littles

Lonely

Luck

Magic

Needs

New York

Nice

Notebook

Novelists

Real

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Quotes by Naomi Novik

Naomi Novik

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.

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.

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.

Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.

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 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.

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.”

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

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