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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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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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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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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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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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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