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Children want to do what grownups do.

Beverly Cleary

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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Boys Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
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 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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Book Children Want
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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Book Library Seventh
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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Cousin Memories Mother
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
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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Book Giving Years
She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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Mean Real Talent
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing

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