She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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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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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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