Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
BEVERLY CLEARYI 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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 don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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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 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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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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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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I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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