Lloyd Alexander quotes

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. (Lloyd Alexander)
I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
Lloyd Alexander
All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.
Lloyd Alexander
In some cases 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
If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
Lloyd Alexander
Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
Lloyd Alexander
Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
Lloyd Alexander
Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
Lloyd Alexander
Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
Lloyd Alexander
Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
Lloyd Alexander
There is truth in all things, if you understand them well. (Lloyd Alexander)
Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
Lloyd Alexander
Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.
Lloyd Alexander
Speak up, my boy. If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.
Lloyd Alexander
A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
Lloyd Alexander
This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
Lloyd Alexander
Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
Lloyd Alexander
A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
Lloyd Alexander
In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.
Lloyd Alexander
Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
Lloyd Alexander
The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own. (Lloyd Alexander)
And so they lived many happy years, and the promised tasks were accomplished. Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had been no more than dreams in a tale set down to beguile children. And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it.
Lloyd Alexander
We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.
Lloyd Alexander
Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.
Lloyd Alexander
If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
Lloyd Alexander