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" After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published. "
Lloyd Alexander
Years
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" I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality. "
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Myself
Reality
Escape
" I didn't know if I'd be good with children. Actually talking with them, I mean. But I am good with them. "
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Am
Talking
Know
" I first wrote for adults, but when I started writing for young people, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life. I was able to express my own deepest feelings far more than I ever could when writing for adults. "
Lloyd Alexander
Experience
Life
People
" Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them. "
Lloyd Alexander
Time
Book
Change
" Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. "
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Reality
Escape
Fantasy
" 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
Never
Way
Person
" It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army. "
Lloyd Alexander
World
World War II
Army
" There's this huge number of desperate people. "
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People
Number
Huge
" 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. "
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Girl
Beautiful
University
" If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn. "
Lloyd Alexander
Perhaps
Than
More
" I never have found out all I want to know about writing and realize I never will. "
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Know
Never
Out
" Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris. "
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Germany
After
Paris
" I guess there's only two possible places ideas can come from. One is the outside: everything that happens to you and everything that you do in life. And the other is the inside part: your own personality and imagination, and no two people are alike, like fingerprints. "
Lloyd Alexander
People
Imagination
Life
" All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. "
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Keep
Hearts
Trying
" I loved all the world's mythologies. "
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Loved
World
" Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy. "
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Been
Form
Books
" I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable. "
Lloyd Alexander
Well
Impossible
Shape
" 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
Sword
King
Uncle
" I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing. "
Lloyd Alexander
Writing
Adventure
Best
" My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. "
Lloyd Alexander
Me
Family
Forget
" I was afraid that not even Merlin the Enchanter could transform me into a writer. "
Lloyd Alexander
Even
Writer
Transform
" Writing has got to be some of the hardest work I know. "
Lloyd Alexander
Got
Hardest
Know
" 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
School
Boy
High School
" After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college. "
Lloyd Alexander
Local
Quit
College
" My imagination can do whatever it wants to do. This gives me a great sense of freedom. "
Lloyd Alexander
Me
Imagination
Sense
" Oh, my parents never cracked a book, just newspapers. "
Lloyd Alexander
Parents
Never
Cracked
" 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
Scenery
Writing
Amazing
" My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings. "
Lloyd Alexander
Learn
Concern
Human
" 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
Looking
More
Finding
" In whatever guise - our own daily nightmares of war, intolerance, inhumanity or the struggles of an Assistant Pig-Keeper against the Lord of Death - the problems are agonizingly familiar. And an openness to compassion, love, and mercy is as essential to us here and now as it is to any inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom. "
Lloyd Alexander
Own
Daily
Death