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.
BEVERLY CLEARYNothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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 was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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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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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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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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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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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I 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.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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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 didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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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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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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Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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 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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