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Lloyd Alexander
American, Writer
Total Quotes : 18
Trying
Deepest
Keep
All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.
- Lloyd Alexander
War
Germany
Paris
Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
- Lloyd Alexander
Money
College
Some
After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
- Lloyd Alexander
Wanted
Horrified
Were
My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
- Lloyd Alexander
Friends
Dearest
Many
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
- Lloyd Alexander
Girl
University
Attended
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
Learn
How
Human Beings
My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
- Lloyd Alexander
Desperate
Number
Huge
There's this huge number of desperate people.
- Lloyd Alexander
Finally
Seven
Jobs
After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.
- Lloyd Alexander
King
Shield
Arthur
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
War
Had
World War
It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
- Lloyd Alexander
Adventure
Best Way
Decided
I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
- Lloyd Alexander
Real People
Some
About
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
Learn
More
May
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
- Lloyd Alexander
Books
Most
Been
Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
- Lloyd Alexander
World
Loved
I loved all the world's mythologies.
- Lloyd Alexander
Question
Answer
Itself
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
Work
Sort
Some
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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