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 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for 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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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