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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

Beverly Cleary

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
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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Cousin Memories Mother
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 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
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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Book Reading Teacher
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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Book Father Mother

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