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 CHAMBERSHe thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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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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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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