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.
BEVERLY CLEARYI 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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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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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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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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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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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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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