Aidan Chambers Quotes

Aidan Chambers — British Author born on December 27, 1934,

Aidan Chambers is 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... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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

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.

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

Aidan Chambers Quotes

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