Children Quote by Beverly Cleary Download Open image “I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.” — Beverly Cleary ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Children Hope Found Giving Glad Hope Hope Glad Start Writing Writing Writing Children
I find that when I write for children, I am more hopeful, less cynical. I don't use different words or a different sentence structure.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
“Children are blank sheets of paper. They are the hope of all good things. Write on them with pure ink of love, joy and… — Tumelo Boitumelo Copy Share Image
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
I've never written specifically for children as such. I write to please myself, and if it is suitable, it gets printed as a children's… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out… — Janine Turner Copy Share Image
All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in them a… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
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… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids like us,… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“She was surprised to feel his hand on her arm and still more surprised-almost unbelieving-to see his fingers unclasp his identification bracelet and remove… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“He seemed grown-up, compared to the boys at school, and although he was not handsome, or even particularly good-looking—there were still some scars on… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
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… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“Well, she thought, I'm certainly bright. She had wanted to meet a new boy and when she finally did meet one she didn't even… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
