Avi
Avi
American author of young adult literature and winner of the Newbery Medal in 2003.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth23 December 1937
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
adventure gone thick-and-thin
It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.
love-you kissing aunt
Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her the kiss she wanted. Then I ran out and caught my bus. I didn't say I loved her. I guess I did. But asking someone to say they love you--and she always asked--is like buying yourself a birthday present. It's more than likely exactly what you want. But it must make you feel awfully sad to get it.
mother father taken
I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing… How odd, I thought; it had taken my mother’s death, Father Quinel’s murder, and the desire of others to kill me to claim a life of my own.
needs unhappiness cures
The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say.
america people tears
People are freer in America. But there are more tears.
wind mind sailor
A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.
teacher writing thinking
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
thinking laughing good-reads
I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.
wind mind safe
A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.
eye heart looks
It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.
became five four writers
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.
again begin crucial gradually
To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found - they are shaped.
patience takes time took worked year
Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.
Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.