“Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”

— Lloyd Alexander, Scholastic student interview, 1999

About Lloyd Alexander

1924 – 2007

American author of fantasy novels, including "The Chronicles of Prydain".

“The more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.”

“The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.”

“In the algebra of fantasy, A times B doesn't have to equal B times A.”

“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day.”

“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”

“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”

“It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author—and not to learn it better.”