I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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 an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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.
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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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He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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 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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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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If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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