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Beverly Cleary

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 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
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
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
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 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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want 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
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
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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Book Chance Reading
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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