P.L. Travers Quotes

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.

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

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is not the issue. Folk music is always there.

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.

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

A very excellent and worthy person, thoroughly reliable in every particular.

Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true."The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time.

I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much!

But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her.

We're on the brink of an Adventure. Don't spoil it by asking questions!