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Beverly Cleary

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 hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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Children Happy Hope Readers
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
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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Children Real Teacher
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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Book Boys Friendship
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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Fairy Tales Great Library
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known

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