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.
BEVERLY CLEARYNothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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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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