Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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.
— Beverly Cleary
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
— Beverly Cleary
I read my books aloud before they were published.
— Beverly Cleary
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.
— Beverly Cleary
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
— Beverly Cleary
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
— Beverly Cleary
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.
— Beverly Cleary
That was the trouble with this house. A girl couldn't even carry on a telephone conversation with any privacy
— Beverly Cleary
I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.
— Beverly Cleary
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
— 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
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
— Beverly Cleary
Ralph really felt sorry for the boy, hampered as he was by his youth and his mother.
— Beverly Cleary
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
— Beverly Cleary
She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
— Beverly Cleary
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.
— Beverly Cleary
I was a librarian.
— Beverly Cleary
People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.
— Beverly Cleary
Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood.
— Beverly Cleary
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
— Beverly Cleary
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
— Beverly Cleary
most beautiful, magic time of the whole year. Her parents loved her, and she loved them,
— Beverly Cleary
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.
— Beverly Cleary
Children want to do what grownups do.
— Beverly Cleary
Words were so puzzling. Present should mean a present just as attack should mean to stick tacks in people.
— Beverly Cleary
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
— Beverly Cleary
Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks, chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.
— Beverly Cleary
If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
— Beverly Cleary
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
— Beverly Cleary
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
— Beverly Cleary
I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.
— Neil Patrick Harris
I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.
— Beverly Cleary
Say, who is this Mr. King?" "What Mr. King?" asked Ramona, walking into his trap. "Nosmo King,
— Beverly Cleary
I am sort of medium ... I guess you could call me the mediumest boy in the class. -Leigh Botts
— Beverly Cleary
If she can't spell, she shouldn't be a librarian.
— Beverly Cleary
Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
— Beverly Cleary
Poor Miss Binney, dressed like Mother Goose, now had the responsibility of sixty-eight boys and girls.
— Beverly Cleary
I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.
— Beverly Cleary
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
— Beverly Cleary
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
— 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
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,
— Beverly Cleary
And now I'm going to find out how to get a library started.
— Beverly Cleary
Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
— Beverly Cleary
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
— Beverly Cleary
I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
— Beverly Cleary
I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood.
— Beverly Cleary
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
— Beverly Cleary
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.
— Beverly Cleary
I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.
— Beverly Cleary
And the muscles of his scrawny arms Are strong as rubber bands.
— Beverly Cleary
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.
— Beverly Cleary
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.
— Beverly Cleary
I am not a pest, Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
— 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
Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.
— Beverly Cleary
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
— Beverly Cleary
