All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.
From Lloyd Alexander
I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
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.
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
I loved all the world's mythologies.
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