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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

Beverly Cleary

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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Mean Real Talent
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
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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Children Classroom Grade Lonely School
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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind

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