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

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.
Lloyd Alexander

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

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

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

I loved all the world's mythologies.
Lloyd Alexander

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

There's this huge number of desperate people.
Lloyd Alexander

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

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

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.
Lloyd Alexander