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.
BEVERLY CLEARYPeople are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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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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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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