I cannot live without reading.
AIDAN CHAMBERSFame, 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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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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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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