I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
BEVERLY CLEARYI had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
BEVERLY CLEARYWe 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.
BEVERLY CLEARYI am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
BEVERLY CLEARYI just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
BEVERLY CLEARYI 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.
BEVERLY CLEARYIn 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 CLEARYShe 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.
BEVERLY CLEARYNothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
BEVERLY CLEARYI was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
BEVERLY CLEARYI don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
BEVERLY CLEARYChildren want to do what grownups do.
BEVERLY CLEARYOtis 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 CLEARYChildren should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
BEVERLY CLEARYHe 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.
BEVERLY CLEARYProblem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
BEVERLY CLEARYI grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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