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

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
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Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Adventure
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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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 justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.
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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
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He was a great poet They lamented. No, he was not a great poet, said Theo, He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?
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Find what you want. I will find you.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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