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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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Oregon
Beverly Atlee Cleary
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I was an only child I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
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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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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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I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
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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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I am not a pest, Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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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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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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