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

I hate being good. -Mary Poppins

- P. L. Travers

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

- 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 …

- P. L. Travers

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

- 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.

- P. L. Travers

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

- 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…

- P. L. Travers