Lloyd Alexander Quotes

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.

Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king—every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

The journey is the treasure.

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

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.