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" Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. "

Lloyd Alexander

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" Oh, my parents never cracked a book, just newspapers. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Perhaps one reason we are fascinated by cats is because such a small animal can contain so much independence, dignity, and freedom of spirit. Unlike the dog, the cat's personality is never bet on a human's. He demands acceptance on his own terms. "

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

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" I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing. "

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" We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" There's this huge number of desperate people. "

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" Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other. "

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

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