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I read my books aloud before they were published.

Beverly Cleary

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
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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Girl Interesting Waiting
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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Book Imagination Stories
I feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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Book Children Want
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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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Book Giving Years
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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Children Happy Hope Readers
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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
She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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Mean Real Talent
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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