Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men's hearts whose flame can never be quenched.
Lloyd AlexanderAt the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
Lloyd AlexanderA crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
Lloyd AlexanderOnce you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
Lloyd AlexanderIf a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?
Lloyd AlexanderI came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I always loved fantasy, whether for adults or young people; and at that particular point in my life, I wanted to try it, to understand it, as part of the process of learning to be a writer. The results were beyond anything I could have foreseen. As I've said often and elsewhere, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life.
Lloyd Alexander