Aidan Chambers
Aidan Chambers
Aidan Chambersis 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. For his "lasting contribution to children's literature" he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 December 1934
mean thinking giving
Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
love-is thinking term
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.
i-love-you-more thinking time-love
All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever. Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it's possible to love someone?
thinking people important
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.
strong thinking envy
How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but "older," if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you're good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier. As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
rivers lovely strange
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is...
self disease doe
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
ifs-and ifs dies
And trust dies from ifs and buts
reading
I cannot live without reading.
facts sometimes sometimes-in-life
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
memorable people lovable
The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
book matter needs
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
struggle puff pages
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
made obvious reader
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.