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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

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
Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Able Ideas World
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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School Ships Years
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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Cousin Memories Mother
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest

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