I read my books aloud before they were published.
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 didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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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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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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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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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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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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 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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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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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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