45 Quotes by P.L. Travers

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

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

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 .

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

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.

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

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.

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.