sentences:  During this time, Hyde also wrote her first novel(s) "Walter's Purple Heart", her first published Novel "Funeral for Horses", and an anthology of 18 short stories, "Earthquake Weather".A self-described literary writer, her breakthrough novel Pay It Forward (novel) was released in 1999 (Pocket Books) and quickly became a national bestseller, and was later adapted into the film Pay It Forward (Warner Brothers), which was released in 2000.According to published interviews, the genesis of the idea for the novel came when Hyde's car caught fire in what she described as the "bad neighborhood" in which she lived, and two total strangers came to her assistance, then left before she could even thank them.