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.
BEVERLY CLEARYQuite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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