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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.

Beverly Cleary

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
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
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
The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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Boys Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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
Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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Book Helping Teacher
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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Different Rummage Sales Shoes
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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

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