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Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.

Beverly Cleary

I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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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Patience Reading Teacher
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
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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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
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 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 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
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest

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