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.
BEVERLY CLEARYOtis 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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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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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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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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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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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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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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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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