In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
BEVERLY CLEARYMy mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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