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Letter "B" » Beverly Cleary Quotes
«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 feel it's important to get children to enjoy reading.»
Author: Beverly Cleary
«My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.»
Author: Beverly Cleary
«Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.»
Author: Beverly Cleary
«Children want to do what the grownups do. Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.»
Author: Beverly Cleary
«I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library: Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book, Red Fairy Book, and so on, probably down to the Puce or Chartreuse fairy tales.»
Author: Beverly Cleary
«If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.»
Author: Beverly Cleary
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