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Naomi Novik Biography

Naomi Novik (born 30 April 1973) is an American writer. She wrote the Temeraire fantasy/alternate history series of nine novels. Her first book, His Majesty's Dragon, won the 2007 Compton Crook Award for best first novel in the science fiction and fantasy category. She was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2007 and 2016, and won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2016 for Uprooted.

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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.

Easy, Glasses, Magic, Simple, Surface

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

Dragons, Law, Laws, Parliament, Thinking, Wish

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, Friendless, Home, Lonely, See

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

Comfortable, Gold, Heap, Should, Sleep

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.

Expensive, Influence, Justice, Littles, Money

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

Engineer, Engineers, Things, Two, Two Things, Writer

Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?

Believe, New York, Unicorn, Virgin, York

Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.

Blood, Cold, Run, Running, Thought, Trying

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

Giving Up, Hands, Heart, Jacobin, Responsibility, Wash

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, Head, Insulting, Laughing, Stay, Sudden

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, Insisting, Things, Tired

What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

Dragons, Exciting, Make, Napoleonic, War

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, Enjoying, Fans, Fiction, Remains, Writing

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. "

Basically, Ended, Female, Solid, Stars, Wall

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.

Duty, Fighting, Friends, Leaving, Thinking, Understand

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.

Animal, Fence, Hours, Maximus, Simple, Swings

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.

Firsts, Minutes, Sitting, Sitting Down, Time, Together

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?

Africa, Dragons, Southern, Think, 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, Total