black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Aidan Chambers

Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Attention Belief Exist Giving Glad Mean Reality Think Thinking Willing World
How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Accept Case Clever Imagine Know Mind Sometimes
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Lovely River Strange Thought
Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Book Doing Important Money People Size Writing
I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Compromise Content Important Language People Thinking
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Fact Life Sometimes Styles Unwelcome
She was–I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is–one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Beautiful Look Past Pat Quiet Sight Tense Using
You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Always Despair Give Giving Hope never Stick Truth Up
As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Alive Anyone Feel Help Herself Know More Need Seeming Someone Think Unsettele
All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Already Ever Love More Something Think Time
If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Always Ask Believe Boy Man Right Want
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Consciousness Form Seeing Story Thought World
And trust dies from ifs and buts
AIDAN CHAMBERS

But Dies From Trust
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Anyone Pay Price Should
They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Change Depending Proportion Shape Sometimes Unchange
Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Always Life Like Novel One

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Aidan Chambers Quotes