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BEVERLY CLEARYHe 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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