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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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a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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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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Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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I cannot live without reading.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.
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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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