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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

Beverly Cleary

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
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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Boys Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest

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