P. L. Travers Quotes

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

When you're writing something that is truly original it takes time.

There are poets and there are grownups.

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

I started writing stories as a child.

I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'

I always love writing about children.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.

I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.