I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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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