The Best Loved Dog Stories of Albert Payson Terhune Quotes

“When Lad died, in September of 1918, I collected the ten or twelve yarns I had written about him, and I tried to sell the collection as a book under the name, Lad: A Dog. I was told that there had been no worthwhile dog books since Bob, Son Of Battle and The Call Of The Wild and that the public did not want that kind of fiction. There was no demand; there was no possible profit. Any volume with a canine hero was foredoomed to fall flat.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, The Best Loved Dog Stories of Albert Payson Terhune

“Daughter,” said the grim old Presbyterian, “you can serve God and mankind as worthily with a gift like yours as you could by going as a missionary to the heathen. God gave you the rare power to write. You would be ungrateful to Him if you neglected it. Go on with your work.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, The Best Loved Dog Stories of Albert Payson Terhune

“Something had to be done. Apart from robbing a bank—a line of endeavor for which I lacked the needful preliminary training—I saw no way to get ahead in the world except by forcing some kind of opening for myself as a fiction writer. Thenceforth, for several years, I set aside five hours a night, five nights a week, for this kind of work. After my nine-hour office day, I came home, got a shower and a rubdown; and as soon as dinner was ended, I went to my desk and began writing.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, The Best Loved Dog Stories of Albert Payson Terhune