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BEVERLY CLEARYQuite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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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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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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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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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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