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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

We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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Father Mother People
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
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
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
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
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
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
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Keys Successful Writing
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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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Book Imagination Stories
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

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