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

Beverly Cleary

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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Father Mother People
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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Boys Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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.
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Book Boys Friendship
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
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
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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 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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest

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