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Beverly Cleary

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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
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
I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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Children Happy Hope Readers
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
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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
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

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

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