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
past path made
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
reading
I cannot live without reading.
facts sometimes sometimes-in-life
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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
reading literature reader
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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.
i-love-you-more thinking time-love
All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever. Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it's possible to love someone?
facts accused resent
We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.
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.
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.
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.