Aidan Chambers
Aidan Chambers
Aidan Chambersis a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Printz Award for Postcards from No Man's Land. For his "lasting contribution to children's literature" he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 December 1934
Aidan Chambers quotes about
giving-up despair sticks
You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.
memorable people lovable
The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
wall shapes rooms
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.
rivers lovely strange
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is...
self disease doe
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
world consciousness form
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
struggle puff pages
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
ifs-and ifs dies
And trust dies from ifs and buts
made obvious reader
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.