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!
BEVERLY CLEARYToday 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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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 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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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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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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