Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.
Lloyd AlexanderMy family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
Lloyd AlexanderChild, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
Lloyd AlexanderI have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.
Lloyd AlexanderMiss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands the use of a slide rule but prefers doing calculations in her head. She does not hesitate to risk life and limb- mine as well as her own. No doubt she has other qualities as yet undiscovered. I hope not.
Lloyd Alexander