If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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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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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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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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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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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.
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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 think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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