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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Beverly Cleary

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Able Ideas World
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
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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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Different Rummage Sales Shoes
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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Girl Interesting Waiting
She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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Mean Real Talent
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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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Book Boys Friendship
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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School Thinking Two
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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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Cousin Memories Mother
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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School Ships Years
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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

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