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 Copy Share Image
“A man's life weighs more then glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.” — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I guess there's only two possible places ideas can come from. One is the outside: everything that happens to you and everything… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I first wrote for adults, but when I started writing for young people, it was the most creative and liberating experience of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Life's a forge! Yes, and hammer and anvil, too! You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“The thing that is maybe the real difference, the fundamental difference, is that in adult literature you can have a literature of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“There are heroes and heroes. I don't deny he's acted bravely on occasion. He's fought beside Lord Gwydion and been proud of himself as… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“I shall not lie!" Eilonwy cried, "not for this traitor and deserter." "It is not for him," Taran said quietly, "but for the sake… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“He learned that the lives of men are short and filled with pain, yet each one a priceless treasure, whether it be that of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“There is an exuberance in good fantasy quite unlike the most exalted moments of realistic fiction. Both forms have similar goals; but realism walks… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Forgive me…I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and adult literature… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Once," he added, "you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.” — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I always loved… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
