I don't think that children, if left to themselves, feel that there is an author behind a book, a somebody who wrote it. Grown-ups have fostered this quotient of identity, particularly teachers. Write a letter to your favorite author and so forth. When I was a child I never realized that there were authors behind books. Books were there as living things, with identities of their own.

Trouble trouble and it will trouble you.

And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?

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

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