Aidan Chambers quotes

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. (Aidan Chambers)

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

Aidan Chambers

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

Aidan Chambers

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

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.

Aidan Chambers

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

Aidan Chambers

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

Aidan Chambers

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

Aidan Chambers

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only, and no knowing.

Aidan Chambers

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

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. (Aidan Chambers)

Doing anything when you're bored is veryboring. Anyway, isof being bored. Theof being bored isand.

Aidan Chambers

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

Aidan Chambers

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Occupation: British Author
Born: December 27, 1934
Died: May 11, 2025
Quotes count: 13

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