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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.

Beverly Cleary

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
We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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Father Mother People
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Book Father Mother
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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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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Book Chance Reading
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
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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind

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