Quotes By 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
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
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
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 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
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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!
Beverly Cleary
I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.
Beverly Cleary
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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 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