About Quote by P. L. Travers

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

— Markus Zusak

“the concept of Mary Poppins is even stronger, implying a secure childhood and an answer to women’s perennial problem: how to balance their lives…

— Valerie Lawson

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of…

— Carol Shields

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction…

— Justine Larbalestier

I never wrote my books especially for children.

— P. L. Travers

We've all been children, we all know a parent or parent-figure. This makes us all potential writers of children's books.

— Michael Rosen

My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing…

— Alan Garner

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the…

— Amy Tan

Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers.

— Jenny Zhang

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

— Edward Hirsch

[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she…

— Jenna Bush