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. TraversPerhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.
P. L. TraversWhen I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.
P. L. TraversI 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. TraversChildren's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo.
P. L. Travers