Writer Quotes by P. L. Travers

What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?

— 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…

— P. L. Travers

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

— 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.

— P. L. Travers

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

— P. L. Travers

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

— 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.

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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

With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down…

— P. L. Travers

I never wrote my books especially for children.

— 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…

— P. L. Travers

I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.

— P. L. Travers