Avi Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 23, 1937

Topics

WritingReadingWeekWriteKidFour

I've skateboarded my whole life, and I'm going to keep enjoying it until my age prohibits me.

Jimmi Simpson

LifeAgeMeKeepGoingWhole

When I was 13, I read 'Et la paix dans le monde, Docteur?' a physician's account of working with Medecins Sans Fontieres during the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. It was this book that inspired me to work for MSF.

Joanne Liu

WorkMeBookPhysicianAfghanistan

The next phase is to 2016, and yes, I want to be First Minister because I believe I have the life experience, and I've got a commitment to change.

Johann Lamont

LifeChangeCommitmentExperience

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

Andrew Sean Greer

ThinkPlaceUnderstandFictionGet

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

John Hume

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I love dancing to the radio every morning, to start the day with such passion. Otherwise, life is too sad. My little daughter and I like dancing to classical music: Bach and Schubert.

Anna Mouglalis

LifeLoveMusicMorningPassionSad

Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctioned by its justice and sustained by a virtuous people.

Jefferson Davis

JusticeProgressPeopleObstacles

You don't want to overthink; you want to just stick with what you've been given.

Amanda Warren

YouWantStickBeenJustGiven

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

Tom Lehrer

YouOffensiveSomebodySatirical

I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.

Mika Brzezinski

MarriageDepressionChallengeChild

When President Kirchner complains, I often sympathise with him, because Argentina was deindustrialised, and it is perfectly normal for the president of a country to try to get industry back.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

Louise Brown

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