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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.

Beverly Cleary

If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Keys Successful Writing
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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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Children Classroom Grade Lonely School
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
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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
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
If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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Book Reading Teacher
Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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Book Helping Teacher

I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.

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