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Beverly Cleary

Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
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
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
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
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
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
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
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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 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

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