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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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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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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Book Boys Friendship
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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Father Mother People
I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Children Giving Writing
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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 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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
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

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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