James M. Barrie
James M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OMwas a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth9 May 1860
mother doors waiting
The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.
mind
asleep to rummage in their minds
thinking hands house
The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.
children tinkerbell fairy
It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.
neverland happened happens
All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
inspirational faith airplane
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
men thinking being-different
As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.
book firsts pockets
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
pain children love-you
It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.
girl boys voice
Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.
scotland sight world
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
real character humility
We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.
believe hands fairy
Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
house stories neverland
Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.