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Beverly Cleary

Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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Algebra Mean Problem
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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
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
She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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Mean Real Talent
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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Book Reading Teacher
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
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
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People

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