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 rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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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 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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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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