The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
AIDAN CHAMBERSI huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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I 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.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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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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