Latest Naomi Novik Quotes from Interviews

• 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.

  Naomi Novik

  Cake, Creative, Novelists

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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?

  Naomi Novik

  Thinking, Dragons, Southern

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Naomi Novik

  Writing, Character, Fans

  Source: www.wbur.org

• What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

  Naomi Novik

  War, Dragons, Exciting

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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."

  Naomi Novik

  Stars, Wall, Female

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Naomi Novik

  Real, Games, Kind

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.

  Naomi Novik

  Two, Two Things, Engineers

  Source: www.wbur.org