Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate..

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

With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudd….

Who are you?" she inquired, as the cat passed by. I'm the cat that looked at a king," he replied. And I," she remarked with a toss of her head, "am t….

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 the….

Trouble trouble and it will trouble you..

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 ….

Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment..

There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other..

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….

Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the ….

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

I hate being good. -Mary Poppins.

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

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads..

It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, rem….

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….

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….

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 up….

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….