I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
BEVERLY CLEARYIn seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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