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Beverly Cleary quotes

American Author April 12, 1916

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Beverly Cleary quote: "I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters."
I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters. 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 did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since. Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary quote: "That was the trouble with this house. A girl couldn't even..."
That was the trouble with this house. A girl couldn't even carry on a telephone conversation with any privacy Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary quote: "I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my..."
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house. Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary quote: "I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind."
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind. Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary quote: "People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really..."
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books. Beverly Cleary
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
She really was weating Stan's bracelet on her arm, something she had scarcely allowed herself to think about-at least not often; it would be so far in the future, if it happened at all. And now it had happened, months before she had dreamed it could. Beverly Cleary
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 fourth-graders with them. Beverly Cleary
I know this is probably sort of sudden." The boy hesitated. "But I was wodnering if you would care to go to the movies with me tomorrow night. Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary quote: "Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there."
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there. Beverly Cleary
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 and work forward and backward from there. Beverly Cleary
If they had been riding in a car, she would have waited for him to go around and open the door for her, but riding in a truck is different Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary quote: "Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take..."
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood. Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary quote: "I read my books aloud before they were published."
I read my books aloud before they were published. Beverly Cleary

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