Aidan Chambers Quotes

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• Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about…
• Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
• 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 things about life I most…
• 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 become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about 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 that is worth doing and…
• 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 and…
• When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never…
• History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
• Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
• Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s…
• Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
• He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
• All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I…

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