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.

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

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

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

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.