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Beverly Cleary

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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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Book Helping Teacher
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
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 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
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Books Children People
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
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
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
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
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
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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Burton Father Imagination Mother Real Step
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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Book Imagination Stories

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

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