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.
BEVERLY CLEARYWhen 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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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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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