I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
BEVERLY CLEARYI wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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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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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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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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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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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