Quotes from Matthew Reilly

Holy shit, she thought. The dragons are throwing cars at me!

I don't save the world for glory or power. I have neither and I don't care for them. In fact, I quite like it that the world doesn't know my name. I just do what I do for the people I love.

Convincing someone to believe something that was inherently unbelievable often meant getting that person to make a quick and easy comparison to something they already knew.

You'd be surprised, you can do a lot more damage with your brains than with your fists.

We didn't come this far just to come this far

The airliner-sized dragon blew apart in a monumental spray of blood and pulp. Great chunks of flesh the size of boulders rained down from the sky. "The empire is striking back," Ambassador Syme observed, peering out the window beside CJ.

So it is with Moslem women and their veils,' Michelangelo said. 'When they saw Muhammad's wives wearing veils, they sought to imitate them, and so now nearly all Islamic women wear veils even though there is no stipulation in their Holy Koran that they do so.

That's not the whole of it. As with many other faiths—including our own Christian one—a small group of zealots have distorted Islam to further their own agenda. When many women took to imitating the fashions of the Prophet's wives, some Moslem men saw an opportunity to put all women under their thumb. They espoused foul laws like those allowing a man to beat his wife or force her into his bed.

Human fears are very often irrational constructs of the mind.

The problem, as I see it, are the twin human creations of marriage and religion. It is marriage and religion that make copulation complex and hurtful. Marriage brings up notions of trust, cuckoldry and ownership, while religion makes certain kinds of intimacy sinful.

Many humans live their entire lives without questioning the 'truths' they've been told.

To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.

Are you a doctor?" Li said. "I'm better than that. I'm a vet. Vets do everything: brain surgery, heart surgery, lab analysis, dislocations –

I think 'The Time Traveler's Wife' is one of the most brilliantly marketed books I have ever seen.

Zoos have always fascinated me. What child hasn't wondered what would happen if all the animals escaped from the zoo? Or what would happen if they got caught in an enclosure?

Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.

I imagine I'm a very unusual guy to date. You know, I've got toys on the shelves, and I've got the cars.

I've been around long enough now that people who don't get into the outrageousness, the over-the-top stuff, they know not to buy my books anymore.

What I do is write books for an audience that thinks in a movie language. That's the way I think, and I also believe that not enough authors keep up with the audience.

Come not between the dragon and his wrath. —William Shakespeare King Lear

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write .

Myths arise from actual events, remarkable events that get talked about precisely because they are remarkable and which then get embellished in the retelling.

Yo. Salt-and-Pepper. The name is Go-Go or Mr Go-Go, okay?

The myth of the dragon is a very peculiar one, precisely because it is a truly global myth. Giant serpents appear in mythologies from all over the world: China, Scandinavia, Greece, Persia, Germany, Central America, the United Kingdom, even Africa. There is no discernible reason for this. How could the myth of a large serpentine creature be so consistent across the ancient world? From: Dragons in History by Eleanor Lock (Border Press, London, 1999)