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 CLEARYI don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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 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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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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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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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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