Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSRooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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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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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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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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