Beverly Cleary

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. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I rarely read children's books. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I read my books aloud before they were published. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I was a librarian. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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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. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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