81 Quotes by Aidan Chambers

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.

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.