Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
AIDAN CHAMBERSReaders are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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