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
neverland i-am-the-best
I am the best there ever was!
children growing-up neverland
All children, except one, grow up.
titles neverland leather
All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.
world want neverland
You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.
morning neverland said
She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.
breathe neverland dies
There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
neverland crocodiles chasing
I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.
neverland happened happens
All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
house stories neverland
Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.
believe child fairy falls somewhere time
Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
loves unhappy
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
believe fairies fairy falls says somewhere time
Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
best
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
lets likes man
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.