Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
BEVERLY CLEARYHe 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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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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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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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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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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The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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