Beverly Cleary Quotes
Top 61 wise famous quotes and sayings by Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
That was the trouble with this house. A girl couldn't even carry on a telephone conversation with any privacy
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.
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 find out his name
We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.
Oh well, thought Jane, that's how men are. He's probably taking it for granted. She found it very pleasant to be taken for granted by Stan
Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood.
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.
Words were so puzzling. Present should mean a present just as attack should mean to stick tacks in people.
Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks, chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.
Amy thought a moment. How could they get rid of their mother? We could have her away taking care of a sick neighbor, and we are all alone in the house
Poor Miss Binney, dressed like Mother Goose, now had the responsibility of sixty-eight boys and girls.
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
They wiped his paws on a good bath towel whenever he came in with wet feet, because they had not been married long enough to have an old bath towel,
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
I guess that's what growing up is. Saying good-by to a lot of things. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it isn't. But it is all right.
In seventh grade ... I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.
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.
Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.