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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

Beverly Cleary

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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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Different Rummage Sales Shoes
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
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
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 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

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