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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.

Beverly Cleary

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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
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
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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
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
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Book Children Grow Up
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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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Children Inspiring Mother

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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