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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 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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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
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

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

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