Avi Quotes

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

I love to read, and I've always loved to write.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

You can't write if you don't read.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books.