My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
From P. L. Travers
I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.
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.
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