You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSYet, 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!
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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I cannot live without reading.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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