Robert Murray M’Cheyne
ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNE
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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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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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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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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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