I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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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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The 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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Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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