Beverly Cleary Quotes & Sayings
51 most famous Beverly Cleary quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She's a 108 year old American author born on Apr 12, 1916.
“Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.”
“My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.”
“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.”
“I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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!”
“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.”
“I read my books aloud before they were published.”
“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.”
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