Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of 'The Wind in the Willows,' which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.