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
There is an exuberance in good fantasy quite unlike the most exalted moments of realistic fiction. Both forms have similar goals; but realism walks where fantasy dances. - Lloyd Alexander
A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly. - Lloyd Alexander
I can't imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret - Lloyd Alexander
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander
The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous. - Lloyd Alexander
Every living thing deserves our respect... be it humble or proud, ugly or beautiful. - Lloyd Alexander
When imagination fails, compassion and humaneness dwindle and atrophy along with it. Unleavened by imagination, the variety and richness of life turn into flat abstractions; people become objects to be manipulated -- with the social consequences we know all too well. - Lloyd Alexander
Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have. - Lloyd Alexander