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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Beverly Cleary

I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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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Book Giving Years
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
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
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
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
Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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Algebra Mean Problem
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
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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Burton Father Imagination Mother Real Step
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
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing

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