Zitat des Tages von P. L. Travers:
'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
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.
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.
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
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.
My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
