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.
BEVERLY CLEARYQuite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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 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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We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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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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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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