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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.

Beverly Cleary

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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
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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School Ships Years

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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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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