All Aidan Chambers Quotes
- 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… Bored
- Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists. All
- The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you. Fact
- The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable. Friends
- 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… All
- Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are. Best
- You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope. Always Hope
- I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well. Every Sentence
- Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it. Banal
- You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. Handbooks
- You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own. Consciousness
- 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… Book
- 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… Complicated
- 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… Adolescent
- History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past. Dies
- Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes. 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… Always Flow
- Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go? Better
- He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing. Difficult
- 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… All