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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

Beverly Cleary

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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School Ships Years
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Able Ideas World
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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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Book Library Seventh
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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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Children Inspiring Mother
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

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

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