I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
BEVERLY CLEARYDon’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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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!
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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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 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.
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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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I 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.
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