Beverly Cleary Quotes
28 Beverly Cleary quotes:
"I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters."
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"People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books."
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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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all."
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"I grew up before there were strict leash laws."
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"I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house."
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"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
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"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."
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