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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Beverly Cleary

The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Keys Successful Writing
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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Children Happy Hope Readers
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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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Father Mother People
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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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School Thinking Two
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Able Ideas World
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Book Father Mother
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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Book Imagination Stories
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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Children Real Teacher
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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Fairy Tales Great Library
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

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