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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

Beverly Cleary

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
Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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School Thinking Two
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl 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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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Girl Interesting Waiting
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
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
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
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
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

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