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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

Beverly Cleary

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
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Book Father Mother
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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School Ships Years
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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Cousin Memories Mother
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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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School Thinking Two
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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
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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Book Library Seventh

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