Beverly Cleary Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Beverly Cleary
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“I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library: Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book, Red Fairy Book, and so on, probably down to the Puce or Chartreuse fairy tales.”
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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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“Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.”
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“Children want to do what grownups do.”
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“Children want to do what the grownups do. Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.”
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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 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.”
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“I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.”
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“I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.”
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“I grew up before there were strict leash laws.”
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