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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!

Beverly Cleary

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 very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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Different Rummage Sales Shoes
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
We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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Father Mother People
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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Book Giving Years
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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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Book Chance Reading
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People

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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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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