I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.

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

I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.

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.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.

I hate being good. -Mary Poppins