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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 need to hear as the confession of myself
Aidan Chambers
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Aidan Chambers
Age: 89
Born: 1934
Born: December 27
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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.
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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 then throw away.
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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 love you more than ever. Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it's possible to love someone?
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
Aidan Chambers
He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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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 any endings.
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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.
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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
Aidan Chambers
I cannot live without reading.
Aidan Chambers
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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 are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
Aidan Chambers
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
Aidan Chambers
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
Aidan Chambers
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
Aidan Chambers
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 and doing nothing.
Aidan Chambers
