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.
BEVERLY CLEARYI had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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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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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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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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