Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
BEVERLY CLEARYWith 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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 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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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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