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 CHAMBERSThe demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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She was–I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is–one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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