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
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.
reading
I cannot live without reading.
facts sometimes sometimes-in-life
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
memorable people lovable
The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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
struggle puff pages
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
reading literature reader
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
world consciousness form
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
pay should
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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.
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.
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.
mean thinking giving
Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.