24 Lloyd Alexander Quotes for You to Enjoy

Lloyd Alexander

American Writer

Born: Jan 30, 1924

Died: May 17, 2007

After Book Me People War Writing

Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward

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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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

People Heroes Think Others Say More Than Themselves Certainly Who

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

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

Concern Learn Genuine How Human Human Beings Beings

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

Say Writers Hearts Trying Keep Deepest

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

Parents Horrified Were Author Wanted Them

I loved all the world's mythologies. Lloyd Alexander

World Loved

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

Work Money College Saved Local Some Quit After

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

War Army World Entered Join Had Decided World War World War II

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

War Paris Wales Germany After Sent Eventually

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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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

Good Know Talking Am Children Mean Them Actually

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

Book Impossible Despicable Shape Taking Well Actually

Oh, my parents never cracked a book, just newspapers. Lloyd Alexander

Book Parents Never Cracked Oh Just Newspapers

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

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

Art Other Valid Art Form Any Children Form Literature

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. Lloyd Alexander

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

Me Could Writer Afraid Transform Even

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

Writing Will Out About Never Know Want Realize Found

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