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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

~Aidan Chambers

Topics: Adolescent Any Beginnings Endings Everything Experiencing First First Time Never Stories Teenage Teenage Years Time Years You Your

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

~Aidan Chambers

Topics: Every Page Paragraph Puff Sentence Sometimes Struggle Well Word

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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.

~Aidan Chambers

Topics: About Complicated Compromise Content First First Time Handle Important Interested Just Language Me People Questions Same Thinking Time Very Will

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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.

~Aidan Chambers

Topics: Away Book Books Doing Entertainment Fame Important Market Me Money Pass People Publishing Size Then Throw Time Very Worth Write Writing

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

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Topics: Almost Banal Made Obvious Readers Say

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

~Aidan Chambers

Topics: About Become Literature Reader Reading You

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

~Aidan Chambers

Topics: Consciousness Forms Get Other Own Seeing Than Through Wiser World You Your

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: December 27th, 1934

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