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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 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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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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