5 Quotes by Beverly Cleary about book


  • Author Beverly Cleary
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    I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

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  • Author 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.

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    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.

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    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.

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