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" 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

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Loved

World

" 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. "

" If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn. "

Lloyd Alexander

Perhaps

Than

" Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy. "

" I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Writing has got to be some of the hardest work I know. "

" I never have found out all I want to know about writing and realize I never will. "

" My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. "

Lloyd Alexander

Family

Forget

" After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college. "

" 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

Talking

Know

" 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. "

" 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. "

" All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. "

" My imagination can do whatever it wants to do. This gives me a great sense of freedom. "

Lloyd Alexander

Imagination

Sense

" Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale. "

" Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris. "

" My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings. "

" Talented people are finding that writing for young people is as demanding of high quality as writing for adults. "

" 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. "

" My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author. "

" It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army. "

" After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Finding