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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.

Beverly Cleary

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 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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests 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
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children 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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest

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