Why, I’m Just As True And Honest

I Will Be Known Forever As The Puppy Who Chased A Cutpurse And Caught Fish Garbage Instead. My Descendants Will Pretend I'm Not In Their Bloodline. No – No One Will Want To Make Descendants With Me. [from Beka Cooper's Journal Of Her First Day As A New Dog I.e. Cop]

I've Written Short Stories In First Person, But You Have So Much More Control Writing In Third Person. Third Person, You Know What Everybody's Thinking. First Person Is Very Limiting, And I Could Never Sustain A First Person Novel Before.

Better To Have It And Not Need It Than To Need It And Not Have It.

Excuse Me," She Said Politely. "but You Can't Have Him. Not Yet. He's Going To Come Back With Me.

Well, Laddie, If You've Let An Old Buzzard Like Me Hurt You Confidence, You Couldn't Have Had Much In The First Place.