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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.

Beverly Cleary

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
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
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 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
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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Boys Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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Fairy Tales Great Library
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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 think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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Children Inspiring Mother

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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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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