Quotes by P. L. Travers

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.

Art

Book

Writing

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

Caring

Hug

Life

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

Children

Stars

Stones

Children’s books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn’t bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo.

Book

Children

Men

Could it be … that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.

Feet

Hero

Life

Don’t you know that everybody’s got a Fairyland of their own?

Knows

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.

Grateful

Looks

Thinking

I don’t think that children, if left to themselves, feel that there is an author behind a book, a somebody who wrote it. Grown-ups have fostered this quotient of identity, particularly teachers. Write a letter to your favorite author and so forth. When I was a child I never realized that there were authors behind books. Books were there as living things, with identities of their own.

Book

Children

Teacher

I hate being good. -Mary Poppins

Hate

I Hate

Mary

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.

Film

Needs

Thinking

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Accepted

Agree

Art

Ask Me

Asks

Bird

Blood

Book

Caring

Cat

Children

Convinced

Creative

Creativity

Crosses

Dog

Fate

Feet

Film

Flying

Gold

Gone

Grandmother

Grateful

Hate

Hero

Hug

I Hate

Ideas

Kings

Knowing

Knows

Life

Light

Looks

Mary

Maturity

Men

Moon

Moving

My Own

Needs

Paper

Race

Real

Rooms

Running

Sea

Soul

Stars

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Quotes by P. L. Travers

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.

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

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

Could it be … that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.

Don’t you know that everybody’s got a Fairyland of their own?

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.

I hate being good. -Mary Poppins

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.

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