P. L. Travers

Pamela Lyndon Travers

(August 9, 1899 - April 23, 1996) ''English Author, creator of "Mary Poppins"; born Helen Lyndon Goff

• There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.

• A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

• 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 beings. It is all endless and all one.

• When 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.

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