I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

- Avi

A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.

- Avi

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…

- Avi

There is a limit to how much a seer wishes to see.

- Avi

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 sus…

- Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

- Avi

There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.

- Avi

All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too.

- Avi

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