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. – P. L. Travers
I think the idea of ‘Mary Poppins’ has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life. – P. L. Travers
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
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. – P. L. Travers
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. – P. L. Travers
‘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. – P. L. Travers
My family didn’t like me going on the stage, and they didn’t much like my being a writer, either. – P. L. Travers
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. – P. L. Travers
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. – P. L. Travers
My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me. – P. L. Travers
I’ve had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I’ve been a pure angel when I come to the end of it. – P. L. Travers
