Aidan Chambers
1934
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Quotes
Biography
Aidan Chambers is a British author known for his works in young adult fiction. He started his career as a teacher before turning to writing. His novels often explore themes of adolescence, identity, and personal growth. Chambers' most famous work is the novel 'Dance on My Grave', which won the Carnegie Medal in 1990.
Famous Quotes (5)
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What is it that you will bring to the reading of that text? Is the text there just for you to play with, or are you there for it to work on you?
2
Reading is so much shorthand decoding. Writing is encoding. And what's in between is your wealth of experience.
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Anthologies are also texts that should prompt readers to ask active and instructive questions. I'm a teacher, so my books are full of intrigue and knowledge. I want to make the brain vibrate.
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What is left after us is what we have written, in the ether of the present or in printed letters in the future. Perhaps the proof of our existence is in some sense the space our words occupy in there.
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Stories, for most of us, are shaped by the fact that the earth is round. Round like a narrative that forever loops back on itself, from something to something, full circle down to the detail. This is the nature of our stories.