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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

Beverly Cleary

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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Girl Interesting Waiting
I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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Book Imagination Stories
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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Book Boys Friendship
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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Children Classroom Grade Lonely School
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Keys Successful Writing
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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School Thinking Two
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Book Father Mother
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Book Children Grow Up
We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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Father Mother People
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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Burton Father Imagination Mother Real Step

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

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