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Beverly Cleary

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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Children Inspiring Mother
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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
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
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children 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
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
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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Children Happy Hope Readers
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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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Book Children Want
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
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

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