Australian - Writer | August 9, 1899 - April 23, 1996
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
P. L. Travers
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Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.
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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
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For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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