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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: About Childhood Had Just Known Wrote

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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

~Beverly Cleary

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I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.

~Beverly Cleary

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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.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Angeles Came College Come Come And Go Cousin Down Go Invited Junior Live Los Los Angeles Lovely Me Memories Mother Year I Came 1930S

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I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Bad Because Been Child Children Classroom Days Farm First First Grade Free Grade Had Lonely Quite Rather School Shock Shut Shut Up Those Time Up Were Wild

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I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Children Found Give Glad Hope Out Some Start Them Writing

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I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Legal Longhand Pads Write Yellow I Write

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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.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Also Am Because Books Changing Constant Constantly Dictionary Distracted Down Favorite Interesting Knows List Practice Practise Reading Remained Use Want Word Writing I Am

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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: About Allowance Back Douglas Grammar Grammar School Midst Movies Sails Saturday School Ships Used Years 1920S

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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: About Best Cared Children Doing Dresses Extra Had Interest Job Just Little Love Others Pretty Real Really Some Subject Teachers Teaching Think Were Wore I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 12th, 1916

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