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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

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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

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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

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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I rarely read children's books. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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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 was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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

— Beverly Cleary

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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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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. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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