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.
BEVERLY CLEARYI was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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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 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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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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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 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 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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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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