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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.

Aidan Chambers

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Lovely River Strange Thought
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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Page Paragraph Puff Struggle Well Word
They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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Change Depending Proportion Shape Sometimes Unchange
Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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Anything Being Bored Boring Doing Nothing
Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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Against Strongest Them Those Use Weakness
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Literature Read Reader
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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Conscious Everything Experience First Teenage Time Year
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Fact Life Sometimes Styles Unwelcome
And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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Alive Feel Name Pleased Saying Speak Wanted
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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Attractive Beautiful Become Celebrity Conventionally Fact Impressive More
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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Just Like Love Now Possible Same Someone Time
I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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Away Book Entertainment Pass People Throw Time Write
I cannot live without reading.
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Live Read Without
There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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Know Time When Yourself
If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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Emotional Fear Make Passionate Worse
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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Excite Full Hurt Joy Sadness Terror

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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