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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."

"People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her."

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

"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."

"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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