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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

Beverly Cleary

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Children Giving Writing
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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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Father Mother People
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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Book Library Seventh
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
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 Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Keys Successful Writing
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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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Book Reading Teacher
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Book Children Grow Up
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Book Father Mother
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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Children Inspiring Mother

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

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