I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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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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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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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