I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
BEVERLY CLEARYQuite 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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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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 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 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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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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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