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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
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
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
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
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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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
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
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 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 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

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