Lloyd Alexander Quotes

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• All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.
• I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
• We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
• Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
• Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some…
• If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands,…
• It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.
• I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
• In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.
• We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.
• If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my…
• After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
• A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
• Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
• My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
• Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
• He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the…
• When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the…
• If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
• If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

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