Beverly Cleary Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

  Beverly Cleary

  Happy, Hope, Children

  "Beverly Cleary at 95: A Talk With the Author Who Created Ramona Quimby". Interview with Rachel Brown, www.theatlantic.com. July 6, 2011.

• Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

  Beverly Cleary

  Teacher, Children, Reading

• As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Book, Children Book

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

  Beverly Cleary

  Teacher, Children, Real

  "Beverly Cleary at 95: A Talk With the Author Who Created Ramona Quimby". Interview with Rachel Brown, www.theatlantic.com. July 6, 2011.

• What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Growing Up, Growing

• 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

  Children, Book, Want

• Children want to do what grownups do.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Want, Grownups

• People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Book, People

• I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Growing Up, Book

• I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

  Beverly Cleary

  Inspiring, Mother, Children

• I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Writing, Giving

  "A few words with Beverly Cleary on her 95th birthday". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 12, 2011.

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

  Beverly Cleary

  Sister, Children, Only Child

• 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

  Lonely, Children, School

  "A few words with Beverly Cleary on her 95th birthday". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 12, 2011.

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