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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

Beverly Cleary

I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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Book Imagination Stories
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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
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
She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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Girl Interesting Waiting
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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 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
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
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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Book Chance Reading
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

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