Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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