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BEVERLY CLEARYI didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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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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I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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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 was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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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 feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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