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 CHAMBERSIf you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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.
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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I cannot live without reading.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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