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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.

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

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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.

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I rarely read children's books.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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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Ramona was originally an accidental character I added to the Henry Huggins books because I noticed that none of the characters had siblings. I added Ramona as Beazus' pestering little sister.

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

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

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

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I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl, I shut the book.

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I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.

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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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I read my books aloud before they were published.

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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

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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.

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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 haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.

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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

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With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

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Over the years, I have been approached about making Ramona into a cartoon or movie, but I was afraid that no one could really capture the spunky character of Ramona.

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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

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Children want to do what grownups do.

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I was a librarian.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald is a favorite.

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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

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I'm just lucky. I do have very clear memories of childhood. I find that many people don't, but I'm just very fortunate that I have that kind of memory.

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I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

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