I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI 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.
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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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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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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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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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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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I cannot live without reading.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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