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
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.
want know-yourself knows
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.
flow
Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
crush real being-in-love
Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
love-is thinking term
I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.
clever two mind
Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.
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.