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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.

Beverly Cleary

I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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 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 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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People

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