Best Quotes by Beverly Cleary (Top 10)

  1. 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 next.
  2. Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
  3. If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
  4. She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
  5. Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
  6. 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 naturally spoke the same language.
  7. I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

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