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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.

Beverly Cleary

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
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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Burton Father Imagination Mother Real Step
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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 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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Book Library Seventh
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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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Children Happy Hope Readers
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

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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