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16 quotes by P. L. Travers

Pamela Lyndon Travers, OBE (born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996), was an Australian born novelist, actress and journalist. She was known for her fictional children's book series featuring the magical English nanny, Mary Poppins. In 1924, Goff emigrated to England where she began to write under the pen name P. L. Travers and in 1933 began writing the book series featuring Poppins. During World War II, while working for the...
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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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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

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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.

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I never wrote my books especially for children.

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

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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.

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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.

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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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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

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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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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... →

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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... →

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

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