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.
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 don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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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 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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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!
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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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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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 was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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