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Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.

Beverly Cleary

I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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Fairy Tales Great Library
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
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
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
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Book Children Grow Up
I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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Cousin Memories Mother
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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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Father Mother People
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 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
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher

Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.

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