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.
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.