Aidan Chambers Quotes

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.

We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.

Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.

If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.

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.