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Lloyd Alexander

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It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.
Lloyd Alexander
I decided that adventure was the best way to learn...
Lloyd Alexander
Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
Lloyd Alexander
After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
Lloyd Alexander
I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
Lloyd Alexander
Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
Lloyd Alexander
My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
Lloyd Alexander
A crown is a pitiless master harsher than the staff of a pig keeper while a staff bears up a crown weighs down beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
Lloyd Alexander
It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
Lloyd Alexander
A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that you have already learned much.
Lloyd Alexander
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
Lloyd Alexander
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
Lloyd Alexander
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.
Lloyd Alexander
Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
Lloyd Alexander
I loved all the world's mythologies.
Lloyd Alexander
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
Lloyd Alexander
After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.
Lloyd Alexander
All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.
Lloyd Alexander
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Lloyd Alexander
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.
Lloyd Alexander
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.
Lloyd Alexander
The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
Lloyd Alexander
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. Its a way of understanding it.
Lloyd Alexander
My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
Lloyd Alexander
There's this huge number of desperate people.
Lloyd Alexander

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