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.
BEVERLY CLEARYI 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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 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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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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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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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 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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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