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Beverly Cleary

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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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
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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Book Giving Years
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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 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
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
Ramona 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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Burton Father Imagination Mother Real Step

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