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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

Beverly Cleary

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
In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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Book Library Seventh
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
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
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
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
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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Book Reading Teacher
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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
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
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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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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