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.
BEVERLY CLEARYIf 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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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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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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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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