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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.

Aidan Chambers

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Literature Read Reader
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
And trust dies from ifs and buts
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But Dies From Trust
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
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
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
The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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Friend Lovable Memorable Most People
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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Chance Course Depend Heartbeat Missing Opportunity Second
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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Accept Case Clever Imagine Know Mind Sometimes
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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Book Doing Important Money People Size Writing
Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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Better Flow Let Go
Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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Almost Made Obvious Reader
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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Actually Being Good Love Term Thinking True
However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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Always Being Giving Keep Part Should Somebody Yourself
Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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All Give IT never Otherwise Yourself
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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Corodes Disease Doe Kill Pity Self

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