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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.

Beverly Cleary

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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
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 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
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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Girl Interesting Waiting
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
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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Children Real Teacher
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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Boys Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned
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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
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

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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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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