I read my books aloud before they were published.
BEVERLY CLEARYI had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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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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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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