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Beverly Cleary

Ramona was originally an accidental character I added to the Henry Huggins books because I noticed that none of the characters had siblings. I added Ramona as Beazus' pestering little sister.

— Beverly Cleary books

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

— Beverly Cleary reading

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

— Beverly Cleary read

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 books

My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.

— Beverly Cleary books

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.

— Beverly Cleary reading

I read my books aloud before they were published.

— Beverly Cleary books

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.

— Beverly Cleary love

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.

— Beverly Cleary art

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!

— Beverly Cleary school

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.

— Beverly Cleary books

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.

— Beverly Cleary writing

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

— Beverly Cleary hope

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.

— Beverly Cleary war

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 change

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

— Beverly Cleary books

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

— Beverly Cleary work

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

— Beverly Cleary childhood

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

— Beverly Cleary love

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

— Beverly Cleary books

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

— Beverly Cleary child

I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.

— Beverly Cleary change

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

— Beverly Cleary writing

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

— Beverly Cleary change

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

— Beverly Cleary write

Ramona was originally an accidental character I added to the Henry Huggins books because I noticed that none of the characters had siblings. I added Ramona as Beazus pestering little sister.

— Beverly Cleary books

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