Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
AIDAN CHAMBERSAll the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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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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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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