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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More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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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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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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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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