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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

I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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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School Thinking Two
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 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
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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
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
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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Children Real Teacher
I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Children Giving Writing
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
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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Girl Interesting Waiting

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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