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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More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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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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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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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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