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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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
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
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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Book Boys Friendship
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Children Giving Writing
I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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Children Classroom Grade Lonely School
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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Children Inspiring Mother
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Book Children Grow Up
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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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Book Imagination Stories
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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Burton Father Imagination Mother Real Step
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

I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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