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Beverly Cleary

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Book Children Grow Up
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
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
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
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
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 hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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Children Happy Hope Readers
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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind

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