King Arthur was one of my heroes – I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle’s cane for the sword Excalibur. Lloyd Alexander Read Quote
My imagination can do whatever it wants to do. This gives me a great sense of freedom. Lloyd Alexander Read Quote
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. Lloyd Alexander Read Quote
I guess there’s only two possible places ideas can come from. One is the outside: everything that happens to you and everything that you do in life. And the other is the inside part: your own personality and imagination, and no two people are alike, like fingerprints. Lloyd Alexander Read Quote
I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out… On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality. Lloyd Alexander Read Quote
I didn’t know if I’d be good with children. Actually talking with them, I mean. But I am good with them. Lloyd Alexander Read Quote
From as far back as I can remember, I always loved the King Arthur stories, fairy tales, mythology – things like that. So it was very natural for me when I came to write the ‘Prydain’ books to sort of follow that direction. Lloyd Alexander Read Quote
