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Beverly Cleary

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 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 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
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
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
Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Able Ideas World
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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Book Children Want
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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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Book Chance Reading
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
I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Children Giving Writing
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister

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