I never wrote my books especially for children.

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• P. L. Travers:

  My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

• P. L. Travers:

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

• P. L. Travers:

  My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him

• P. L. Travers:

  I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when

• P. L. Travers:

  I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, a

• P. L. Travers:

  Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

• P. L. Travers:

  Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always ass

• P. L. Travers:

  I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications,

• P. N. Elrod:

  I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project,

• P. N. Elrod:

  Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write a