Aidan Chambers Quotes, Want Quotes, Know Yourself Quotes

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

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

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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

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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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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

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

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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts

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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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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

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