I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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