Aidan Chambers Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.552, Random House

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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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  Book, Writing, People

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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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  Bored, Doing Nothing, Boring

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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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  Giving Up, Despair, Sticks

  "Postcards from No Man's Land". Book by Aidan Chambers, January 7, 1999.

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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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  Hurt, Sadness, Joy

  Aidan Chambers (1987). “Now I know: a novel”, Vintage

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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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  Beautiful, Past, Sight

  Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.192, Abrams

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

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  Pay, Should

  Aidan Chambers (2004). “Postcards from No Man's Land”

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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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  Struggle, Puff, Pages

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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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  Memorable, People, Lovable

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• The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

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  Facts, Sometimes, Sometimes In Life

  Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.93, Abrams

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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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  Book, Needs, Matter

  Aidan Chambers (2010). “Postcards from No Man's Land”, p.271, Random House

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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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  Wall, Rooms, Size

  Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.10, Abrams

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