My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
BEVERLY CLEARYIn seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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 very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write 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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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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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