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BEVERLY CLEARYI 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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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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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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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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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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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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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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