Mercy Watson is a pig. She lives with Mr. and Mrs. Watson, who are not pigs. I had that basic premise, but I couldn't make it work. I would come back to it, try it, see that I was failing, and put it aside.
I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.
Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
I wrote my first book in fifth grade. It was about a dog that goes to outer space and is an ambassador for Earth.
Let's put it this way: If a raccoon can carry a movie, then they believe maybe even a woman can.
Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.
I've dreamed of having my French bulldog become a bestselling children's heroine.
