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 CHAMBERSLife is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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I cannot live without reading.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
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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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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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