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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.
Beverly Cleary
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Beverly Cleary
Age: 104 †
Born: 1916
Born: April 12
Died: 2021
Died: March 25
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McMinnville
Oregon
Beverly Atlee Cleary
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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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My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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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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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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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
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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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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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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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I am not a pest, Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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