The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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 cannot live without reading.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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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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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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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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