I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
BEVERLY CLEARYHe was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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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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He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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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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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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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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