- Laws
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Changed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rarely read children's books.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grammar School
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020