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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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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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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.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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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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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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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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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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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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