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.
BEVERLY CLEARYI 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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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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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I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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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 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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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