I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
BEVERLY CLEARYAs a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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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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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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