Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon

Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.

He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.

I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.

Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.