Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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 ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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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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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 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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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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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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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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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