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

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

— Beverly Cleary

#just #learn #make #pleasure #reading

Children want to do what grownups do. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#grownups #want

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

— Beverly Cleary

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

— Beverly Cleary

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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. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#beginning #book #forward #i #imagination

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

— Beverly Cleary

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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. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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