“Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's own books - it does not matter whose or where. Simply to be among books, glancing… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
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… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“I don't know, I can't quite get it." "Don't try. It's just words." " Just words?" "Just words! We love them so much, you… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but "older," if that makes… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
