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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

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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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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Algebra Mean Problem
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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
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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Patience Reading Teacher
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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Cousin Memories Mother
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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
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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind

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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