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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 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
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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School Ships Years
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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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Patience Reading Teacher
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
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
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
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 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
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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Book Chance Reading

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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