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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

Beverly Cleary

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
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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Children Happy Hope Readers
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Book Father Mother
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
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 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
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
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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