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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Beverly Cleary

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds 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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl 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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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
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
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
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Keys Successful Writing
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
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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Burton Father Imagination Mother Real Step
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind

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