Best Quotes by Beverly Cleary (Top 10)
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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.
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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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.
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I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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.
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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.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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 book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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