--- title: "1 Ask Like Quotes By P. L. Travers" description: "1 Ask Like quotes by P. L. Travers. Plus more from P. L. Travers and more Ask Like sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe3/p-l-travers-18631_anything_you-can-ask-me-anything-you-like-about-m_2910370.png" --- > [You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-l-travers/you-can-ask-me-anything-you-like-about-my-work-but-i-ll-never-talk/) [P. L. Travers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-l-travers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe3/p-l-travers-18631_anything_you-can-ask-me-anything-you-like-about-m_2910370.png) ## More by P. L. Travers > [What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-l-travers/what-i-want-to-know-is-this-are-the-stars-gold-paper-or-is-the-gold/) [P. L. Travers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-l-travers/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-l-travers/i-don-t-think-that-children-if-left-to-themselves-feel-that-there-is/) [P. L. Travers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-l-travers/) > [More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-l-travers/more-and-more-i-ve-become-convinced-that-the-great-treasure-to/) [P. L. Travers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-l-travers/) > [I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-l-travers/i-think-the-idea-of-mary-poppins-has-been-blowing-in-and-out-of-me/) [P. L. Travers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-l-travers/) > [Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-l-travers/sorrow-lies-like-a-heartbeat-behind-everything-i-have-written/) [P. L. Travers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-l-travers/) > [Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-l-travers/stories-are-like-birds-flying-here-and-gone-in-a-moment/) [P. L. Travers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-l-travers/) > [Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-l-travers/every-child-needs-to-have-for-itself-not-only-its-loving-parents-and/) [P. L. Travers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-l-travers/) > [I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-l-travers/i-think-that-mary-poppins-needs-a-subtle-reader-in-many-respects-to/) [P. L. Travers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-l-travers/) > [The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-l-travers/the-irish-as-a-race-have-the-oral-tradition-in-their-blood-a-direct/) [P. L. Travers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-l-travers/when-i-was-a-child-love-to-me-was-what-the-sea-is-to-a-fish-something/) [P. L. Travers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-l-travers/a-writer-is-after-all-only-half-his-book-the-other-half-is-the-reader/) [P. L. Travers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-l-travers/with-the-word-creative-we-stand-under-a-mystery-and-from-time-to-time/) [P. L. Travers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-l-travers/) > [I never wrote my books especially for children.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-l-travers/i-never-wrote-my-books-especially-for-children/) [P. L. Travers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-l-travers/) > [My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-l-travers/my-father-died-when-i-was-7-i-was-his-favorite-child-and-he-was-my/) [P. L. Travers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-l-travers/) > [I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-l-travers/i-was-brought-up-irish-where-there-was-room-for-my-own-private-world/) [P. L. Travers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-l-travers/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ask-like/p-l-travers/#itemlist", "name": "1 Ask Like Quotes By P. L. Travers", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "P. L. 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