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Beverly Cleary was an American author celebrated for her beloved children's books. Her imaginative storytelling introduced iconic characters like Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins to generations of young readers. She inspired countless children to embrace the joy of reading. Here are 53 of her quotes:

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all. (Beverly Cleary)

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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I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.

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Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

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I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood.

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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.

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I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.

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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

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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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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. (Beverly Cleary)

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

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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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I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

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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 particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college.

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Words were so puzzling. should mean a present just asshould mean to stick tacks in people.

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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)

I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl, I shut the book.

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I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.

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I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.

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People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

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Beverly Cleary

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Occupation: American Author
Born: April 12, 1916
Died: March 25, 2021
Quotes count: 53

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