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Avi
American
Author
Born:
Dec 23
,
1937
Become
Book
Me
Think
Writing
You
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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.
Avi
Me
Book
Made
First
Affection
Enormous
Other
Definitely
Detective
Writer
Writers
Raymond
Like
Read
Reader
Falcon
Led
Impression
Author
American
Fiction
McDonald
Many
American Writers
Among
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.
Avi
Music
You
Science
Sister
Everybody
Musician
Brother
Vital
Poems
Shape
Take
Takes
Sons
Ideas
Him
Understand
Rock
His
Question
Stories
Them
Turn
Help
Uses
Fashions
Her
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.
Avi
Me
Sister
Older
City
Born
Minutes
Only
Emily
Stuck
No-One
New
Name
Along
She
Knows
Am
Five
Than
York
New York
New York City
Use
Certainly
Who
Reasons
Now
Twin
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.
Avi
Writing
Reading
Books
Kid
Week
Write
Writer
Writers
Read
Became
How
Five
Four
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.
Avi
Book
World
Mind
Become
See
Somewhat
Like
Look
Story
Mean
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.
Avi
Time
Day
Me
Patience
Every Day
Book
Writing
Year
Every
Took
One Time
Write
Takes
Years
Lot
Worked
I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.
Avi
Good
Sometimes
Enjoy
Think
Laugh
Feel
Most
Read
Readers
Want
Them
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
Avi
You
Yourself
Writing
Become
Think
Thinking
About
Writer
Readers
Stop
Your
Teachers
Start
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