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 read my books aloud before they were published.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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 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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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 great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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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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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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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I feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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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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