Lloyd Alexander Quotes

You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not ...

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familia...

Find what you want. I will find you.

-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful."-"It was stupid.

The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can on...

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write the...

Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shu...

...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? T...

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody.""You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodde...

Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them.

My luck's no greater than yours or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when ...

If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.

Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!

I saw myself.... In the time I watched, I saw strength—and frailty. Pride and vanity, courage and fe...

Count the deed, not the thought.

Is a man truly what he see himself to be?''Only if what he sees is true.

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

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

Every living thing deserves our respect... be it humble or proud, ugly or beautiful.

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happen...

I, too, shall seek honor. But I shall seek it where I know it will be found.

We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the b...

I can't imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret

The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any mo...

The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. Y...

When imagination fails, compassion and humaneness dwindle and atrophy along with it. Unleavened by i...

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

Children may not understand all that's happening below the surface of a story. It doesn't matter. Be...

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning th...

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, ...

The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In ...

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first le...

I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has a...

Who but lovers dream alike?

The journey is the treasure.

He learned that the lives of men are short and filled with pain, yet each one a priceless treasure, ...

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

Surely you can entrust your task to your friends." "No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have tak...

Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one fo...

No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Ffl...

Gwydion stood as a wolf at bay, his green eyes glittering, his teeth bared.

I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, ...

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simp...

It is strange,' he said at last. 'I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with s...

But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom tha...

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantmen...

Thus, death begets death; evil begets evil.

It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my belo...

And so shall honor Morgant," Gwydion said, "for what he used to be, and Ellidyr Prince of Pen-Llarca...

Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord.

No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!

Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.

I shall not lie!" Eilonwy cried, "not for this traitor and deserter." "It is not for him," Taran sai...

He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose h...

Torrens kicked at the door until it was finally opened. The farm couple and three youngsters had bee...

She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.