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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

Beverly Cleary

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
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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 humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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Boys Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned
I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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Children Classroom Grade Lonely School
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
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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

I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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