Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
BEVERLY CLEARYRamona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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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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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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I feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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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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