I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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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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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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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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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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and 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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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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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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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