Children want to do what grownups do.
BEVERLY CLEARYThe humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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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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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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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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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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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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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With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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