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.
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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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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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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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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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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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