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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

Beverly Cleary

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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Book Library Seventh
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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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Book Children Want
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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Book Chance Reading
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Book Father Mother
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
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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School Thinking Two
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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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Girl Interesting Waiting
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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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Cousin Memories Mother
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
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister

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