Reading literature Quotes by Aidan Chambers

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

“Readers are made by readers. ”

— Aidan Chambers

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

“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

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

— Aidan Chambers

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

— Aidan Chambers

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

— Aidan Chambers

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

— Aidan Chambers

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

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

— Aidan Chambers

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

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

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

— Aidan Chambers

“No, but still, the fact is, at least this is how it seems to me, everybody has to learn about it [love] from scratch…

— Aidan Chambers

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

— Aidan Chambers