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Lloyd Alexander

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


— Lloyd Alexander


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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.


— Lloyd Alexander


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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.


— Lloyd Alexander


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I loved all the world's mythologies.


— Lloyd Alexander


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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.


— Lloyd Alexander


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It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.


— Lloyd Alexander


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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


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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.


— Lloyd Alexander


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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.


— Lloyd Alexander


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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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Did you know about Lloyd Alexander?

That was "the story of a young person going out into the world for the first time and finding the world a very difficult place indeed. He once described it as being educational for him and as "rather like being a visiting uncle who has a marvelous time with his nephews and nieces then goes off leaving the parents to cope with attacks of whooping cough mending socks and blackmailing the kids to straighten up the mess in their rooms. I loved all the world's mythologies; King Arthur was one of my heroes;.

His most famous work is The Chronicles of Prydain a series of five high fantasy novels whose conclusion The High King was awarded the 1969 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature. National Book Awards in 1971 and 1982.

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