I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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 have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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