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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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading 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 an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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
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
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
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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 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
If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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Book Reading Teacher
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
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
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

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