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

Beverly Cleary

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
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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 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
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
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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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 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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
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
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

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