If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
AIDAN CHAMBERSReaders are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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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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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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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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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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