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Beverly Cleary

"I read my books aloud before they were published."

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"I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years."

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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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