'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.
More Quotes by 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.
I never wrote my books especially for children.
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.
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
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.
You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.