I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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 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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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 think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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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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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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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 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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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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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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Otis 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.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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