"You become a reader by reading the literature,……" — Aidan Chambers
"You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it."
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33 Quotes by Aidan Chambers
Aidan Chambers has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure…
- Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really…
- The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
- The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
- The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those…
- Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
- You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.
- I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
- Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
- You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
- Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book…
- I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just…
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