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

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For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

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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.

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I never wrote my books especially for children.

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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.

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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

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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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My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Writer

Born: August 9th, 1899

Died: April 23rd, 1996

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