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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 don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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Children Inspiring Mother
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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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Book Chance Reading
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
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
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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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Book Children Want
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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 didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.

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