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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

I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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Book Boys Friendship
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister

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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