Lloyd Alexander
"Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves."
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"Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves."
"إن الكتب لقادرة حقًا على تغيير حياتنا: حياة من يقرؤونها، وحياة من يكتبونها. فالقراء والكتّاب على حد سواء يكتشفون من خلالها ما لم يعرفوه قط عن العالم وعن ذواتهم."
Lloyd Alexander
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"I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives."
"أرى أن الخيال هو جوهر كل ما نقوم به. فالاكتشافات العلمية ما كانت لتتحقق لولاه، والفنون والموسيقى والآداب ما كان لها وجود بدونه. لذا، فإن كل ما يعزز الخيال، والقراءة بلا شك تفعل ذلك، يمكن أن يكون عوناً لنا مدى الحياة."
Lloyd Alexander
"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
"إن سعينا وراء إجابة سؤال دون العثور عليها يعلمنا أكثر مما نتعلمه من معرفة الإجابة ذاتها."
Lloyd Alexander
"The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to sacrifice all the you could possibly have, be, or do; you must be willing to go all the way for your art. If it is a question between choosing between your life and a work of art -- any work of art -- your decision is made for you."
Lloyd Alexander
"Every living thing deserves our respect... be it humble or proud, ugly or beautiful."
Lloyd Alexander
"All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts."
Lloyd Alexander
"When imagination fails, compassion and humaneness dwindle and atrophy along with it. Unleavened by imagination, the variety and richness of life turn into flat abstractions; people become objects to be manipulated -- with the social consequences we know all too well."
Lloyd Alexander
"The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous."
Lloyd Alexander
"Children may not understand all that's happening below the surface of a story. It doesn't matter. Because even though they may not be able to define or verbalize it, they sense there's something more than meets the eye; on an almost subliminal level, they're aware of a richness of texture, or meaning and emotion -- a richness that, in a great book, is inexhaustible. And the child may well come back to it again and again, perhaps long after he's stopped being a child."
Lloyd Alexander
"We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them."
Lloyd Alexander
"Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have."
Lloyd Alexander
"I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives."
Lloyd Alexander
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