What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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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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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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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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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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