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
knowledge knowing-everything age
I am not young enough to know everything.
pirate weapons lovable
One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.
mother doors waiting
The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.
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.
poet
He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.
inspirational motivational inspiring
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
beautiful heart curves
She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.
sarcastic halloween night
A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.
sorry games play
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.
children selfish heartless
Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.
baby laughing nests
When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.
long littles fairy
Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them