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.
BEVERLY CLEARYDidn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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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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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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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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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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