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Lloyd Alexander
Profession : Writer
Birth : January 30, 1924
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
Lloyd Alexander
All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.
Lloyd Alexander
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
Lloyd Alexander
There's this huge number of desperate people.
Lloyd Alexander
Writing has got to be some of the hardest work I know.
Lloyd Alexander
I had always been interested in mythology. I suppose my brief stay in Wales during World War II influenced my writing, too. It was an amazing country. It has marvelous castles and scenery.
Lloyd Alexander
I didn't know if I'd be good with children. Actually talking with them, I mean. But I am good with them.
Lloyd Alexander
I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable.
Lloyd Alexander
Oh, my parents never cracked a book, just newspapers.
Lloyd Alexander
Heroes are people who think more of others than themselves. This is not to say that they don't think of themselves. They do. They certainly do. But they think of others more.
Lloyd Alexander
There's a kind of funny gap between 14 and 20 when young people don't read very much. Nobody really knows what to do about it, although we've tried to reach these dropout readers with the 'young adult' book.
Lloyd Alexander
Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.
Lloyd Alexander
Talented people are finding that writing for young people is as demanding of high quality as writing for adults.
Lloyd Alexander
From as far back as I can remember, I always loved the King Arthur stories, fairy tales, mythology - things like that. So it was very natural for me when I came to write the 'Prydain' books to sort of follow that direction.
Lloyd Alexander
Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.
Lloyd Alexander
King Arthur was one of my heroes because he was such a marvelous, heroic, courageous, and magnificent person that I had to admire him even though I knew perfectly well that I could never be in any way like that.
Lloyd Alexander
My imagination can do whatever it wants to do. This gives me a great sense of freedom.
Lloyd Alexander
After high school, I worked as a messenger boy at a local bank. I was miserable. I felt like Robin Hood chained in the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon. As a would-be writer, I thought it was a catastrophe. As a bank employee, I could barely add or subtract and had to count on my fingers.
Lloyd Alexander
I never have found out all I want to know about writing and realize I never will.
Lloyd Alexander
I used the imaginary kingdom not as a sentimentalized fairyland but as an opening wedge to express what I hoped would be some very hard truths.
Lloyd Alexander
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