Beverly Cleary Quotes
- 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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
- I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
- Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
- Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
- 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…
- 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…
- All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
- I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
- 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…
- 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.
- I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
- Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
- 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…
- 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…
- My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
- As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.
- I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
- What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
- 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…