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.
BEVERLY CLEARYShe means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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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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Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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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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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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 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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