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.
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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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I feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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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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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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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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