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.
BEVERLY CLEARYShe 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.
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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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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 hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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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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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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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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