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"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
Explore more quotes by Beverly Cleary
"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
"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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