Aidan Chambers Quotes, born December 27, 1934, in Chester-le-Street, England, is a British author renowned for his children’s and young-adult novels, including Dance on My Grave (1982) and Postcards from No Man’s Land (1999), which won both the Carnegie Medal and the Printz Award. Honored with the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002 for his lasting contribution to children’s literature, Chambers crafts stories that explore identity, love, and the complexities of adolescence with unflinching honesty. These 15 quotes—sourced from his novels, interviews, and posts on X—reflect his profound thoughts on reading, love, self-discovery, and storytelling, capturing his empathetic and introspective spirit.
15 Aidan Chambers Quotes
- “Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away.” (This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn, 2005)
- “Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people’s books, one’s own books—it does not matter whose or where.” (The Reading Environment, 1991)
- “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.” (Dying to Know You, 2012)
- “The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.” (This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn, 2005)
- “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.” (Now I Know, 1987)
- “I’ve always been a slow learner in some areas of my life, mostly the areas known as myself. Or maybe I should say ‘selves,’ because the fact is, I’ve never, even as a child, felt I’m only one self, only one person.” (This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn, 2005)
- “Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.” (Dying to Know You, 2012)
- “You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.” (Interview, BrainyQuote, n.d.)
- “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.” (Interview, BrainyQuote, n.d.)
- “Reading is a way of opening up the world to yourself.” (Interview, Bookey, 2023)
- “Self-pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.” (This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn, 2005)
- “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.” (Dying to Know You, 2012)
- “Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored is mooning about and doing nothing.” (This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn, 2005)
- “You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.” (Interview, BrainyQuote, n.d.)
- “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.” (This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn, 2005)
Aidan Chambers’ quotes weave a tapestry of love, self-discovery, and the transformative power of stories, inspiring readers to embrace their complexities and dive into the world of books. Which one sparks your curiosity or touches your heart? Drop it in the comments and keep his literary legacy thriving!
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