If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
BEVERLY CLEARYWith 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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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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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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 think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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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