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.
BEVERLY CLEARYChildren should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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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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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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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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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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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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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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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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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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