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!
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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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel 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 was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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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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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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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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