Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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 was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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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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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.
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I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents' Night.
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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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I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.
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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.
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Don't stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don't forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.
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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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