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.
BEVERLY CLEARYI 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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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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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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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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