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

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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

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

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

Reading

"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."

Imagination

"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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"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 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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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

"Big Brother is watching you."

"Some men do not know the father of 'their' children."

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

"Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them."

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

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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."

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

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

"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."

"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."

"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 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."