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 More Quotes by Avi More Quotes From Avi 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. Avi safe mind wind I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself Avi writing teacher thinking 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-reads laughing thinking It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin. Avi thick-and-thin gone adventure A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own. Avi sailor mind wind The more men see of the world, the bigger their hearts Avi heart men world There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could. Avi eyelashes blind men The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say. Avi cures unhappiness needs People are freer in America. But there are more tears. Avi tears america people All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too. Avi mercy soul thinking For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading! Avi reading writing heaven There is a limit to how much a seer wishes to see. Avi seers limits wish Let's agree then . . . if you're about to come to a conclusion, you'll head off in another direction. You might even find your own voice. Avi voice writing might I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms-- the adventure, the mystery, the thriller-- so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read. Avi writing adventure book I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.' What's that?' I...trust you.' Why?' You'll never hurt me.' Thank you.' But...' But, what?' I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.' Why?' 'Cause, like I said, you'll never hurt me back. Avi causes hurt mean I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing… How odd, I thought; it had taken my mother’s death, Father Quinel’s murder, and the desire of others to kill me to claim a life of my own. Avi taken mother father Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her the kiss she wanted. Then I ran out and caught my bus. I didn't say I loved her. I guess I did. But asking someone to say they love you--and she always asked--is like buying yourself a birthday present. It's more than likely exactly what you want. But it must make you feel awfully sad to get it. Avi aunt kissing love-you A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something. Avi think magic life people 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 like me affection book In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages. Avi story try good tell
