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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.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Children #Book #Goes On
“My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Book #Reading #Writing
“One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Book #Reading #Sunday
“Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Book #Years #Giving
“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.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Girl #Interesting #Waiting
“Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Teacher #Children #Reading
“As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Children #Book
“If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Librarian #Should
“I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Wise #Mother #Book
“If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Book #Writing #Want
“Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Girl #People #Care
“I read my books aloud before they were published.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Book
“Children want to do what grownups do.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Children #Want #Grownups
“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.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Mother #Father #People
“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.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Children #Book #Want
“What interests me is what children go through while growing up.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Children #Growing Up #Growing
“I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Writing #Yellow #Pads
“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.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#School #Thinking #Clothes
“I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Goes On #Internet
“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.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Lonely #Children #School
“I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Childhood
“I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Teacher #Children #Real
“I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Mind #Ballerina #Changed
“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!”
-- Beverly Cleary

#School #Years #Ships
“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.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Teacher #Book #Reading
“My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Mother #Father #Book
“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.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Patience #Teacher #Reading
“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.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Book #Reading #Chance
“I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Big Sister #Pests #Bigs
“She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.”
-- Beverly Cleary

#Real #Mean #Talent

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