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I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Cities City Cook Country Life Like Live Miss Museums Read Travel Walk

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I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Also Am Because Cello College Danced Daughter Enjoy Familiar Fond Future Her Hours Husband Instrument Listened Many Music Nights Our Particularly Plays Popular Popular Music Practice Saturday Were Written I Am 1930S

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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Good Here Need Out Writers

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People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Am Did Experiences Her Inclined People Say Share Some Sure True I Am

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I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Child Only Only Child Sister Sisters

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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

Topics: Across Aisle Appears Best Best Friend Books Boy Friend Grade He Inspired Lively Me Person Sat Sixth Various Who

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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Children Go Growing Growing Up Interests Me Through Up While

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I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Books Burden Children Feel Grim Know More More And More Problems Sometimes Them Third Want I Feel

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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.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Aloud Days Even Evening Father Many Me Mother People Read Television Those Would

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Children want to do what grownups do.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Children Grownups Want

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 12th, 1916

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