If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
BEVERLY CLEARYPeople are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s 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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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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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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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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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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.
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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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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