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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. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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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. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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Children want to do what grownups do. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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

— Beverly Cleary

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I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir. ↗

— Kate Clinton

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Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger. ↗

— Bill Cosby

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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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