Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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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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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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 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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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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