I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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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Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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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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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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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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We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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