James Barrie
James 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"...
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth9 May 1860
birds faith fly perfect reason simply wings
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings
kinder life rule shall
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.