81 Quotes by Aidan Chambers

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.

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is...

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.

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

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.