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

Beverly Cleary

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl 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
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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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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Book Children Want
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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Patience Reading Teacher
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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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Book Helping Teacher
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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.
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Burton Father Imagination Mother Real Step
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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Children Classroom Grade Lonely School
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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Book Giving Years
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

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

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