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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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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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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 didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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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 was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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