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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Aidan Chambers

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Aidan Chambers
Age: 89
Born: 1934
Born: December 27
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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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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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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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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
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If a boy, if a man, asks you if you're all right and you say yes, he'll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It's just the way they're made.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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I cannot live without reading.
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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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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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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.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.
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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.
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