If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
BEVERLY CLEARYThe key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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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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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