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
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.
mind
My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it as a story.
answers listen others satisfied watch
Listen and watch the world around you. Don't be satisfied with answers others give you.
teachers writer
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
along certainly five knows minutes name older reasons twin york
I was born in New York City, along with a twin sister. I am five minutes older than Emily. It was Emily, for reasons no one knows - she certainly doesn't - who called me Avi. It stuck. It's the only name I use now.
life public state worked york
For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.
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.
good
In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.