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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 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 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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
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 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
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 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 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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want 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
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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Book Reading Teacher

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