I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
AIDAN CHAMBERSNever give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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I cannot live without reading.
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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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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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