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 CHAMBERSHistory dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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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.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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.
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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 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.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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