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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSIf you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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 pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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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