You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own. Aidan Chambers More Quotes by Aidan Chambers More Quotes From Aidan Chambers 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. Aidan Chambers sight beautiful past 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. Aidan Chambers sadness hurt joy 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. Aidan Chambers experiencing-everything teenage years 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. Aidan Chambers important people thinking 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. Aidan Chambers writing book people 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. Aidan Chambers men boys believe And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay. Aidan Chambers should pay I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well. Aidan Chambers puff pages struggle I cannot live without reading. Aidan Chambers reading The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you. Aidan Chambers sometimes-in-life sometimes facts The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable. Aidan Chambers lovable memorable people 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 Aidan Chambers matter book needs And trust dies from ifs and buts Aidan Chambers ifs-and dies ifs Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes. Aidan Chambers disease self doe 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. Aidan Chambers size wall rooms You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. Aidan Chambers reader reading literature
