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.
BEVERLY CLEARYWe 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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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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 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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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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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