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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

Beverly Cleary

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
If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Know Librarians Should
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 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
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
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
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
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
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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Book Giving Years
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
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 feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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Book Children Want
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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Bedtime Needs Writers
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing

Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

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