I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
BEVERLY CLEARYIn 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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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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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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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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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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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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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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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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