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P. L. TRAVERS
The Art of Fiction No. 63
Interviewed by Edwina Burness, Jerry Griswold
Issue 86, Winter 1982
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From the Interview
INTERVIEWER
So people can read anything and everything into the stories?

TRAVERS
Indeed. A great friend of mine at the beginning of our friendship (he was himself a poet) said to me very defiantly, “I have to tell you that I loathe children's books.” And I said to him, “Well, won't you just read this just for my sake?” And he said grumpily, “Oh, very well, send it to me.” I did, and I got a letter back saying: “Why didn't you tell me? Mary Poppins with her cool green core of sex has me enthralled forever.”
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