Aidan Chambers Quotes, Book Quotes, Writing Quotes

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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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.

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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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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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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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She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them, become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.

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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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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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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

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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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Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

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I cannot live without reading.

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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 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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