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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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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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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 was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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Fairy Tales Great Library
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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Book Imagination Stories
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Keys Successful Writing
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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 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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
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
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 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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing

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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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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