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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

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
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
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
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
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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Children Giving 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
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 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
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
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

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