If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself. Lloyd Alexander More Quotes by Lloyd Alexander More Quotes From Lloyd Alexander A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much. Lloyd Alexander discomfort crowns ifs ...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness. Lloyd Alexander believable righteousness I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I always loved fantasy, whether for adults or young people; and at that particular point in my life, I wanted to try it, to understand it, as part of the process of learning to be a writer. The results were beyond anything I could have foreseen. As I've said often and elsewhere, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life. Lloyd Alexander writing people years Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, world's mythology, the Arthurian legends. And the unabridged dictionary. And they're still my favorites. They get better each time I read them. Lloyd Alexander get-better growing-up book Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next. Lloyd Alexander next curiosity blessed I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory. Lloyd Alexander together character book I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?" Lloyd Alexander what-if imagination art Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults. Lloyd Alexander writing attitude people Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. 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. Lloyd Alexander freedom personality dog animal After high school, I worked as a messenger boy at a local bank. I was miserable. I felt like Robin Hood chained in the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon. As a would-be writer, I thought it was a catastrophe. As a bank employee, I could barely add or subtract and had to count on my fingers. Lloyd Alexander boy thought high-school school 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. Lloyd Alexander you personality life people 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 sword king uncle trash Writing has got to be some of the hardest work I know. Lloyd Alexander some know work writing 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 amazing scenery war world 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 i-am good know children I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable. Lloyd Alexander shape well impossible book
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