I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAnd the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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.
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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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