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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.

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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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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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Years
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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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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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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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.

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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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.

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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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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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