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Book Quotes by Beverly Cleary
- 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.
- Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 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…
- I read my books aloud before they were published.
- People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.
- I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
- 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…
- 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…
- I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
- If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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