Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
AIDAN CHAMBERSFame, 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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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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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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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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