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.
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 don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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In 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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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 feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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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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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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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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