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.
BEVERLY CLEARYIf you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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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 we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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 was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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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 didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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