I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
BEVERLY CLEARY
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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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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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 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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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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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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