Beverly Cleary Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

  Beverly Cleary

  Happy, Hope, Children

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

• 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

  Reading, Book, 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

• If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

  Beverly Cleary

  Book, Writing, Want

• 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

• As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Book, Children Book

• I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

  Beverly Cleary

  Book, Imagination, Stories

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

  Beverly Cleary

  Wise, Mother, Book

• 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

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

  Beverly Cleary

  Mother, Father, Book

• 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, Reading, Book

• 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.

  Beverly Cleary

  Book, Library, Would Be

• 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

• 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

  Teacher, Book, Helping

  Source: inkandescentpr.com

• I read my books aloud before they were published.

  Beverly Cleary

  Book

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

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Book, People

• 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

• 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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