Quotes by Lloyd Alexander

• I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
• Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
• I loved all the world's mythologies.
• After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
• Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
• If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
• My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
• When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.
• There's this huge number of desperate people.
• My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
• Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
• My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
• Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
• King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.
• It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
• All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.
• After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.
• We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.