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P L Travers Quotes

I never wrote my books especially for children Picture Quote #1

When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero’s name will elicit whole chapters of stories Picture Quote #1

I’ve felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch Picture Quote #1

And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit Picture Quote #1

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns Picture Quote #1

The silky hush of intimate things, fragrant with my fragrance, steal softly down, so loth to rob me of my last dear concealment Picture Quote #1

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Trouble trouble and it will trouble you Picture Quote #1

Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment Picture Quote #1

Tea is balm for the soul, don’t you agree? Picture Quote #1

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story’s fate Picture Quote #1

Tonight the small are free from the great and the great protect the small Picture Quote #1

What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars? Picture Quote #1

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I never wrote my books especially for children (P L Travers Quotes) When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life (P L Travers Quotes) 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 Quotes) And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit. (P L Travers Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero’s name will elicit whole chapters of stories (P L Travers Quotes) I’ve felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch (P L Travers Quotes) And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit (P L Travers Quotes) 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 Quotes) The silky hush of intimate things, fragrant with my fragrance, steal softly down, so loth to rob me of my last dear concealment (P L Travers Quotes) Trouble trouble and it will trouble you (P L Travers Quotes) Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment (P L Travers Quotes) Tea is balm for the soul, don’t you agree? (P L Travers Quotes) Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story’s fate (P L Travers Quotes) Tonight the small are free from the great and the great protect the small (P L Travers Quotes) What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars? (P L Travers Quotes)