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Beverly Cleary quotes - page 2
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
I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
Beverly Cleary
Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
Beverly Cleary
I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood.
Beverly Cleary
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
I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.
Beverly Cleary
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
Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
Beverly Cleary
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.
Beverly Cleary
I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
Beverly Cleary
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
Beverly Cleary
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
Beverly Cleary
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
Beverly Cleary
I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
Beverly Cleary
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
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
Beverly Cleary
I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college.
Beverly Cleary
Words were so puzzling. should mean a present just asshould mean to stick tacks in people.
Beverly Cleary
I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl, I shut the book.
Beverly Cleary
I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.
Beverly Cleary
I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.
Beverly Cleary
People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.
Beverly Cleary
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