Lloyd Alexander Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  YouTube Channel "l2runlimited"/"Lloyd Alexander (part 2 of 3)", www.youtube.com. May 07, 2008.

• ...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?

  Lloyd Alexander

  Writing, Ignorance, People

• I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Travel, Writing, Adventure

• After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Jobs, Writing, Years

• Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Book, Writing, World

• My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Writing, Literature, Forget

• 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 fantasy, whether for adults or young people; and at that particular point in my life, I wanted to try it, to understand it, as part of the process of learning to be a writer. The results were beyond anything I could have foreseen. As I've said often and elsewhere, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Writing, Years, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Attitude, Writing, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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