All P L Travers Quotes
- Child and serpent, star and stone — all one. All
- For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer,… Answer
- Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree? Agree
- And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit. All
- Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment. Bird
- More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown. Become Convinced
- The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same… All
- If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads. All
- Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own? Fairyland
- A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. All
- Who are you?" she inquired, as the cat passed by. I'm the cat that looked at a king," he replied. And I," she remarked with… Asked
- Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate. Accepted
- 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… All
- I hate being good. -Mary Poppins Good
- Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is… Bones
- You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest -… All
- I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned. Cannot Summon
- 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. Age
- I never wrote my books especially for children. Books
- I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world. Brought