Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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 cannot live without reading.
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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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