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Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.

Beverly Cleary

If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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Book Imagination Stories
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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School Ships Years
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
Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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Book Helping Teacher
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
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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Children Inspiring Mother
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
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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
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
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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups

Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.

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Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.

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