What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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 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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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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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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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 was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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