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.
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… - P. L. Travers
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…
- P. L. Travers
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
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.
Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment. - P. L. Travers
Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.
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 … - P. L. Travers
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 …
Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate. - P. L. Travers
Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.
I hate being good. -Mary Poppins - P. L. Travers
I hate being good. -Mary Poppins
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… - P. L. Travers
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…
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
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
Child and serpent, star and stone — all one. - P. L. Travers
Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.
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