Now, you might think that favorite books are something a writer wouldn't forget, and I suppose I hadn't forgotten them exactly. But I had never thought of them as the kind of book I might write myself, and now, suddenly, I did. The books I was thinking about were by a German writer named Felix Salten, and I had read them in translation—though I didn't know that at the time. I loved Mr. Salten's books so passionately that I would read each one as rapidly as I could and then, when I came to the last page, want to cry because the story was over. The best known of these is one you will recognize, probably not because you have read it, but for the Disney movie that grew out of it. The book is called Bambi.