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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
- Lloyd Alexander
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Talented people are finding that writing for young people is as demanding of high quality as writing for adults.
- Lloyd Alexander
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
- Lloyd Alexander
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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
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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.
- Lloyd Alexander
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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
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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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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
- Lloyd Alexander
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I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable.
- Lloyd Alexander
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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
- Lloyd Alexander
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
- Lloyd Alexander
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It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
- Lloyd Alexander
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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.
- Lloyd Alexander
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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.
- Lloyd Alexander
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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.
- Lloyd Alexander
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
- Lloyd Alexander
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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.
- Lloyd Alexander
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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.
- Lloyd Alexander
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