All Beverly Cleary Quotes
- I grew up before there were strict leash laws. Grew
- I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it. Children
- I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works. Even Know
- 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… Bad
- I just wrote about childhood as I had known it. Childhood
- I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Best
- I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind. Ballerina
- 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… All
- 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… 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… Ahead
- I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives. All
- If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell. Inspirational
- 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… Crease
- Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona? Care
- Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles… Bit
- Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work. Algebra
- I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus. Big
- She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it. Always Manages
- The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy,… Act
- She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened… Find
- All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt...The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the… All
- Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped… Button
- If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it. Book
- I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were… Best
- I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood. Children