My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
BEVERLY CLEARYThe key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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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 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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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