If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
BEVERLY CLEARYI just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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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.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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