Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
BEVERLY CLEARYIf you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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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Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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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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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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