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
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In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.
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It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.
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Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.
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Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had my own collection of books. I loved to read. Still do.
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A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.
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Don't assume that because everyone believes a thing, that it is right or wrong. Reason things out for yourself. Work to get answers on your own. Understand why you believe things.
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I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.
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I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my opinion - to make good readers is to let kids choose their own books and not test them.
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The truth is I don't watch TV at all. It bores me.
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Without giving too much away, obviously there'll be a little bit of the origin and then we come into our real world. What makes Captain America such a compelling character is that it allows you to judge history so you see where he came from and you see what he stood for.
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We said we would give 48 hours for the ceasefire to be implemented on the ground. What we have seen is more violent incidents than before ... and the Palestinian Authority has done very little, if at all, to stop the fighting.
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You have to attack your own system in order to understand how hackers are attacking your system and how to defend against them.
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We are excited to launch them as consumer brands via feature film releases under our direction.
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There have been prosecutions going down the chain of the command but not going up. Its not enough to prosecute the people who were following orders.