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.
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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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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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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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