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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

- P. L. Travers

Behind, Like, Lies, Heartbeat

Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.

- P. L. Travers

Thought, Legend, Before, Mary Poppins

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.

- P. L. Travers

Childhood, Maturity, Idea, Specifically

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

My Life, Think, Mary Poppins, Blowing

I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

- P. L. Travers

Think, Needs, Mary Poppins, Respects

My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.

- P. L. Travers

My Life, Through, Brought, Beloved

'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.

- P. L. Travers

Monkey, Which, Based, Wherever

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

- P. L. Travers

Myself, Conquer, Been, Apart

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

Own, Grown-Up, Needs, Sibling

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 because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

- P. L. Travers

Grateful, Think, Very, Glad

I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

- P. L. Travers

Myself, Cannot, Summon, Summoned

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

Other, Half, His, Learns

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

- P. L. Travers

World, Private, Brought, Irish

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