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
reading
I cannot live without reading.
book matter needs
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
pay should
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
bored doing-nothing boring
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.
names alive speak
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.
strong thinking envy
How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but "older," if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you're good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier. As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
life-is novel
Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
opportunity missing chance
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.
being-yourself giving should
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.
thinking people important
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.
believe boys men
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.
book writing people
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.
past path made
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
hurt sadness joy
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.