What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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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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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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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