American - Writer | January 30, 1924 - May 17, 2007
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
Lloyd Alexander
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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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Writing has got to be some of the hardest work I know.
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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.
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I didn't know if I'd be good with children. Actually talking with them, I mean. But I am good with them.
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I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable.
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Oh, my parents never cracked a book, just newspapers.
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Heroes are people who think more of others than themselves. This is not to say that they don't think of themselves. They do. They certainly do. But they think of others more.
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There's a kind of funny gap between 14 and 20 when young people don't read very much. Nobody really knows what to do about it, although we've tried to reach these dropout readers with the 'young adult' book.
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Talented people are finding that writing for young people is as demanding of high quality as writing for adults.
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Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.
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King Arthur was one of my heroes because he was such a marvelous, heroic, courageous, and magnificent person that I had to admire him even though I knew perfectly well that I could never be in any way like that.
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