I'm just lucky. I do have very clear memories of childhood. I find that many people don't, but I'm just very fortunate that I have that kind of memory. Beverly Cleary childhoodclearfind Change image and share on social
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there. Beverly Cleary goodpluckwriter Change image and share on social
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives. Beverly Cleary bookchildhappy Change image and share on social
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood. Beverly Cleary answerbookchildhood Change image and share on social
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all. Beverly Cleary enjoyfourthgrader Change image and share on social
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 bookburdenchild Change image and share on social
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! Beverly Cleary 1920sallowanceback share on social
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. Beverly Cleary bookdiscovergrade Change image and share on social
I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed. Beverly Cleary changechildworld Change image and share on social
I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock. Beverly Cleary badchildclassroom share on social
