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Avi
American Author
Born: Dec 23, 1937
Become Book Me Think Writing You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
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
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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. Avi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read. Avi
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I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers. Avi
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