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.
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
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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…
Child and serpent, star and stone — all one. - P. L. Travers
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. - 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.
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