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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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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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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 cannot live without reading.
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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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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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There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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