I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
BEVERLY CLEARYI was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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.
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He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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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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I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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!
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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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