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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.

Beverly Cleary

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children 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
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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Book Children Grow Up
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
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 very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise

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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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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