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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

Beverly Cleary

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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Children Classroom Grade Lonely School
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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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Algebra Mean Problem
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Able Ideas World
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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Fairy Tales Great Library
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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Boys Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Keys Successful Writing
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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Patience Reading Teacher
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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Children Happy Hope Readers
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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Children Real Teacher
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works

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