You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself..

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

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….

The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end..

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 n….

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….

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….

I hate being good. -Mary Poppins.

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 ….

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….

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….

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..

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..

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

Trouble trouble and it will trouble you..

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one..

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

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….

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

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown..

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 ….