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.
BEVERLY CLEARYI 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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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 she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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