If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads. P. L. Travers More Quotes by P. L. Travers More Quotes From P. L. Travers It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us-the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star-we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child. P. L. Travers stars children moving 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 film needs thinking 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 looks thinking The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end. P. L. Travers stars bird moving Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment. P. L. Travers flying gone bird 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. P. L. Travers views dog men You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself. P. L. Travers ask-me asks 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 window ideas thinking I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world. P. L. Travers my-own rooms world 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 me poetry life children Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written. P. L. Travers behind everything like sorrow 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 parents child friends age I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned. P. L. Travers cannot myself up inspiration '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 loved friend chaos I never wrote my books especially for children. P. L. Travers wrote books never children My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either. P. L. Travers like me stage family 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 me man life father 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 end myself conquer angel
