Quotes by Aidan Chambers

About Aidan Chambers:

Aidan Chambers is 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 (1999). For his "lasting contribution to children's literature" he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.
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She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them, become more and more attractive and...

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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.

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And trust dies from ifs and buts

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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

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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.

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It's one of the great temptations, you see--wanting to prove the strength of your own faith by making others believe what you believe. It shows you're right. But it doesn't prove anything of the sort. All it proves is that you're condescending and ar...

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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.

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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.

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I don't just want to ban The Bomb. I want to ban all bombs, whatever, and all bombers, whoever, and all bombings, whyever. There have to be better ways of saying no and making changes.

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Doing anything when you're bored is very boring. Anyway, is of being bored. The of being bored is and

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If we try to measure Now, we find it's always gone, has become part of the past.

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Yes, even in your mouse moods you only play with the idea of not being." She cleared her throat again. "Biology, you see. It’s because of biology that we want to live and not to die. And it is because of biology that we come to a time when we want ...

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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only , and no knowing.

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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

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Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?

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Ah, clever clogs, but it have happened in one of my alternative lives. You know--the lives hot-shot scientists tell us we are living at the same time as this one we know about. Which being so, how do you know that what happens in one of your alternat...

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It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and fl...

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I cannot live without reading.

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Secrets. Funny how, when you're about to be given something precious, something you've wanted for a long time, you suddenly feel nervous over taking it. Everyone wants more than anything to be allowed into someone else's most secret self. Everyone wa...

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Author Bio

  • NameAidan Chambers
  • DescriptionBritish children's writer
  • BornDecember 27, 1934
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Writer
  • AwardsHans Christian Andersen Award; Zilveren Griffel