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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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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Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.
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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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One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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I was an only child I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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 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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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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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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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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