Beverly Cleary Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• 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

• Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

  Beverly Cleary

  Teacher, Children, 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

• 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

• 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

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