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

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.

Lloyd Alexander

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

Lloyd Alexander

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

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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.

Lloyd Alexander

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

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

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

Lloyd Alexander

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

Lloyd Alexander

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

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

Lloyd Alexander

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.

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

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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.

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

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There's this huge number of desperate people.

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I loved all the world's mythologies.

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

Lloyd Alexander

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

Lloyd Alexander

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

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

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

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

Lloyd Alexander

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.

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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

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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