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Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.
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Profession
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The truth is I don't watch TV at all. It bores me.
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Bores
Truth Is
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In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.
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Good Story
Messages
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Listen and watch the world around you. Don't be satisfied with answers others give you.
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Answers
Satisfied
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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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Magic
Life People Something
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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.
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Readers
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I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
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Writer
Teachers
Readers
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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.
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Somewhat
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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.
Avi / Author
Courses
Elementary School
High School
Poor
Science School High School
Writer
Elementary
Failed
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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.
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Five
Writer
Books
Became
Read
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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.
Avi / Author
Inspirational
Smile
Eye
Heart
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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.
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One Time
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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.
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Crucial
Begin
Gradually
Shaped
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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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Being Used
In My Opinion
Readers
Test
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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.
Avi / Author
New York
College
Jersey
Librarian
New Jersey
Public Library
Life Always My Life
Life My Life New
Books
Public
Worked
York
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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.
Avi / Author
Work Believe Yourself
Assume
Believes
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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.
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New York
Sister
Emily
Five
Minutes
New York City
Stuck
Certainly
Me City I Am
Twin
Older
City I Am Me
Reasons
York
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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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Birthday
Book
Every Night
Friday
Library
My Own
Night
Taken
Had
Collection
At Least One
Own
Loved
Read
Early
Still
Few
Least
One Book
Received
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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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Sister
Science
Brother
Ideas
Musician
Stories
Understand
Fashions
Help
Her
Him
Rock
Poems
Question
Shape
Sons
Takes
Uses
Vital
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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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Affection
Book
Enormous
Falcon
Fiction
Impression
Made
Writer
American
American Writers
Among
Author
Read
Definitely
Detective
Led
Mcdonald
Raymond
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