I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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 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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