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 CHAMBERSLike 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?
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about 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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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 want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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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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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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A joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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