Quotes by Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary

All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt. […] The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake

Cake

Littles

Rose

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

Librarian

Valuable

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.

Book

Children

Children Book

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.

Book

Helping

Teacher

He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.

Different

Rummage Sales

Shoes

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

Children

Giving

Writing

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.

Children

Inspiring

Mother

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

Enjoy

Thirds

Writing

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.

Book

Children

Want

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

Grew Up

Law

Strict

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Algebra

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Boys

Cake

Children

Children Book

Different

Enjoy

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Father

Giving

Grew Up

Happy

Helping

Here And There

Hope

Ideas

Inspiring

Law

Librarian

Library

Littles

Lonely

Mean

Mother

Motorcycle

Needs

Patience

People

Problem

Reading

Real

Rose

Rummage Sales

School

Ships

Shoes

Strict

Sunday

Talent

Tales

Teacher

Thinking

Thirds

Two

Valuable

Want

World

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Quotes by Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary

All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt. […] The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.

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.

He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.

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

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.

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

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.

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

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