I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
BEVERLY CLEARYRamona 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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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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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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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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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