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Beverly Cleary

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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

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