Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
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. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time… — 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
