AUTHOR EXTRAORDINAIRE
"I used the imaginary kingdom not as a sentimentalized fairyland but as an opening wedge to express what I hoped would be some very hard truths."
"I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality."
"Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them."
"Talented people are finding that writing for young people is as demanding of high quality as writing for adults."
"I guess there's only two possible places ideas can come from. One is the outside: everything that happens to you and everything that you do in life. And the other is the inside part: your own personality and imagination, and no two people are alike, like fingerprints."
"My imagination can do whatever it wants to do. This gives me a great sense of freedom."
"All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts."
Author Extraordinaire Lloyd Alexander
