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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl 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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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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Book Library Seventh
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
Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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Algebra Mean Problem

If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

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