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 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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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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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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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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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I 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.
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