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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

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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Patience Reading Teacher
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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
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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School Thinking Two
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 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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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Girl Interesting Waiting
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
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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Book Boys Friendship
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children

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