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Beverly Cleary

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
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
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Book Father 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
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups

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