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

Beverly Cleary

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
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
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 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
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
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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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Boys Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known

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

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