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" 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

Nobody

Book

Funny

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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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Looking

Finding

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

" 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. "

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

Lloyd Alexander

Family

Forget

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Imagination

Sense

" 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

Think

Say

" I was afraid that not even Merlin the Enchanter could transform me into a writer. "

" I loved all the world's mythologies. "

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Loved

World

" 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. "

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

Lloyd Alexander

Perhaps

Than

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

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

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

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

" 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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Talking

Know

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "