I don't necessarily start w... by Beverly Cleary, an American Author

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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.”

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Name: Beverly Cleary

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Apr 12, 1916

Profession: Author

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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

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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.

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

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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.

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