Phrase by '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.

Author: P. L. Travers - Australian Writer
  Life , Me , Children , Poetry


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.

Author: P. L. Travers - Australian Writer
  You , Children , Childhood , Maturity


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.

Author: P. L. Travers - Australian Writer
  Friends , Age , Parents , Child


Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

Author: P. L. Travers - Australian Writer
  Everything , Like , Behind , Sorrow


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.

Author: P. L. Travers - Australian Writer
  Me , Look , I Am , Grateful


A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Author: P. L. Travers - Australian Writer
  Book , Only , Half , After


I never wrote my books especially for children.

Author: P. L. Travers - Australian Writer
  Never , Children , Books , Wrote


I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

Author: P. L. Travers - Australian Writer
  Life , Me , My Life , Window


I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

Author: P. L. Travers - Australian Writer
  Think , Understand , Cannot , Film


You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

Author: P. L. Travers - Australian Writer
  You , Me , Myself , Work


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