Quote

I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.

Lloyd Alexander

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
King
Kings
Reader
Days
Afterwards
High
Cried
Three
Differently
Think
Ended
Thinking
Readers

More quotes by Lloyd Alexander

Image
My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim! ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr
Lloyd Alexander
Image
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
Image
My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
Lloyd Alexander
Image
The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
There's this huge number of desperate people.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
Lloyd Alexander
Image
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.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.
Lloyd Alexander