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 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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Stories

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 Humilation Perhaps Turned
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
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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Classroom Grade
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.

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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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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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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Rummage Sales
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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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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Bo Burnham
BO BURNHAM
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

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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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Children want to do what grownups do.

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Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Known
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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Inspiring
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed
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 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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Happy Readers
She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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Waiting
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Child

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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