Top 18 Quotes by Lloyd Alexander

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

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

I loved all the world's mythologies.

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

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

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

There's this huge number of desperate people.

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

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.

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