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P. L. Travers Biography

Pamela Lyndon Travers, OBE (/ˈtrævərs/; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-born British writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of children's books, which feature the magical nanny Mary Poppins.

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

Ask, Crosses, Lane, Policeman, Tree, Want

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.

Beast, Bird, Moving, Stars, Substance

What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?

Gold, Know, Paper, Stars

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

Fairyland, Know, Knows

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

Caring, Friend, Hug, Life, Though, Time

I hate being good. -Mary Poppins

Hate, I Hate, Mary, Poppins

Trouble trouble and it will trouble you.

Trouble

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.

Begins, Book, Children, Ends, Make, Maturity

Could it be. . . that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.

Bones, Feet, Hero, Life, Willing

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.

Book, Books, Child, Children, Left, Teacher

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

Blood, Cases, Hero, Name, Race, Tradition

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

Accepted, Escape, Fate, Stories

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.

Beast, Child, Children, Moving, Remember, Stars

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

Become, Convinced, Possess, Treasure, Unknown

You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

Ask, Ask Me, Asks, Like, Talk, Work

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

Art, Book, Half, Writer, Writing

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.

Film, Mary, Needs, Respects, Subtle, Thinking

I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.

Irish, My Own, Room, Rooms, World

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

Blowing, Ideas, Like, Mary, Thinking, Window

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.

Affairs, Child, Children, Fish, Sea, Swim

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