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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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If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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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 am not a pest, Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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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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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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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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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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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 an only child I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
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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 was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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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