3 P. L. Travers Quotes on Writing

P. L. Travers quotes on writing

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

6. 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.

21. Mary Poppins is both a joy and a curse to me as a writer ... As a writer, you can feel awfully imprisoned, because people, having had so much of one thing, want you always to go on doing more of the same.