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P. L. Travers [1899-1996] Australian

Rank: 103
Writer, Novelist

Pamela Lyndon Travers, OBE was an Australian-born British novelist, actress, and journalist. She is known best for the Mary Poppins series of children's books featuring the magical English nanny Mary Poppins.

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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.		101
Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.		102
'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.		103
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.		104
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.		105
I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.		106
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.		107
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.		108
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.		109
I never wrote my books especially for children.		110
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.		111
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.		112
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.		113
You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.		114
My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.		115
I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.		116

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