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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.

Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.

Aidan Chambers
Mean, Thinking, Giving
Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.552, Random House

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.

Aidan Chambers
Bored, Doing Nothing, Boring

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
Book, Writing, People

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

Aidan Chambers
Giving Up, Despair, Sticks
"Postcards from No Man's Land". Book by Aidan Chambers, January 7, 1999.

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.

Aidan Chambers
Hurt, Sadness, Joy
Aidan Chambers (1987). “Now I know: a novel”, Vintage

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 impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.

Aidan Chambers
Beautiful, Past, Sight
Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.192, Abrams

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

Aidan Chambers
Struggle, Puff, Pages

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

Aidan Chambers
Memorable, People, Lovable

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

Aidan Chambers
Facts, Sometimes, Sometimes In Life
Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.93, Abrams

And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.

Aidan Chambers
Pay, Should
Aidan Chambers (2004). “Postcards from No Man's Land”

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

Aidan Chambers
Book, Needs, Matter
Aidan Chambers (2010). “Postcards from No Man's Land”, p.271, Random House

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.

Aidan Chambers
Wall, Rooms, Size
Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.10, Abrams

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