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.
BEVERLY CLEARYI wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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 an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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 don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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She 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.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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