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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

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'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.

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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.

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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.

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I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Writer

Born: August 9th, 1899

Died: April 23rd, 1996

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