Beverly Cleary Quotes - Page 2

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• I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.

  Beverly Cleary

  Goes On, Internet, Know How

  "Beverly Cleary at 95: A Talk With the Author Who Created Ramona Quimby". Interview with Rachel Brown, www.theatlantic.com. July 6, 2011.

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• I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

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  Writing, Yellow, Pads

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• 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

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• What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Growing Up, Growing

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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.

  Beverly Cleary

  School, Thinking, Two

  Beverly Cleary, Paul O. Zelinsky (1995). “Strider”

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• She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

  Beverly Cleary

  Real, Mean, Talent

  "Fifteen". Book by Beverly Cleary, September 1, 1956.

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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.

  Beverly Cleary

  Mother, Father, People

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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.

  Beverly Cleary

  Friendship, Book, Boys

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• If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

  Beverly Cleary

  Librarian, Should, Know How

  Beverly Cleary (2001). “Ramona's world”

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• I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

  Beverly Cleary

  Mind, Ballerina, Changed

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• I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

  Beverly Cleary

  Wise, Mother, Book

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• My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

  Beverly Cleary

  Mother, Father, Book

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• Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

  Beverly Cleary

  Here And There, Needs, Bedtime

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• Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

  Beverly Cleary

  Girl, People, Care

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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.

  Beverly Cleary

  Lonely, Children, School

  "A few words with Beverly Cleary on her 95th birthday". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

  Beverly Cleary

  Writing, Enjoy, Thirds

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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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  School, Years, Ships

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• People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Book, People

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• I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

  Beverly Cleary

  Big Sister, Pests, Bigs

  Beverly Cleary, Louis Darling (1968). “Ramona the Pest”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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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.

  Beverly Cleary

  Inspiring, Mother, Children

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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.

  Beverly Cleary

  Book, Reading, Chance

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• I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Growing Up, Book

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• I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.

  Beverly Cleary

  Sister, Children, Only Child

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• 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

  Mother, Cousin, Memories

  "A few words with Beverly Cleary on her 95th birthday". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 12, 2011.

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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.

  Beverly Cleary

  Shoes, Different, Rummage Sales

  Beverly Cleary (1988). “Ramona Quimby, age 8”, Yearling Books

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