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.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

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

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.

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

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