Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you’re required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to say positive things. You can have affection and hope in children’s books, but that is out of fashion in adult fiction.

— Lloyd Alexander

Lloyd Alexander Quotes

If I fret over tomorrow, I’ll have little joy today.

— Lloyd Alexander

Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.

— Lloyd Alexander

Are you slow-witted? I’m so sorry for you. It’s terrible to be dull and stupid.

— Lloyd Alexander

Who but lovers dream alike?

— Lloyd Alexander

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

— Lloyd Alexander

And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.

— Lloyd Alexander

There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.

— Lloyd Alexander

For Wayfarers still journeying, for Wanderers at rest.

— Lloyd Alexander

How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.

— Lloyd Alexander

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

— Lloyd Alexander

For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.

— Lloyd Alexander

What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.

— Lloyd Alexander

Find what you want. I will find you.

— Lloyd Alexander

No matter what has happened, you’re not a pig-boy; you’re an Assistant Pig Keeper!

— Lloyd Alexander

I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.

— Lloyd Alexander

King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.

— Lloyd Alexander

Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and above all, the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be.

— Lloyd Alexander

Just because you’ve seen something doesn’t mean you’ll stop looking. There’s always something you didn’t see before.

— Lloyd Alexander

Behind one truth there is always yet another.

— Lloyd Alexander

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man’s hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

— Lloyd Alexander
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