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 CLEARYI enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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 had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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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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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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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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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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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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 was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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