Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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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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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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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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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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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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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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