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 CLEARYWriters are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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 you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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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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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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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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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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