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.
BEVERLY CLEARYI read my books aloud before they were published.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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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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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.
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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 want to do what grownups do.
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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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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