I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThere are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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I cannot live without reading.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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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 most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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