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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

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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
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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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 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 have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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Cousin Memories Mother
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known

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