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

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

Beverly Cleary

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“I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us and charge us with forsaking real jazz . . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz.' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony.”
“You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.”
“The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book." "Naturally," said John.”

Source : Edward Eager (1999). “Seven-Day Magic”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If I had to do it over again, I'd probably play the game the same way.”
“Fathers teach their best lessons to their children by the way they handle life when confronted with adversities.”
“The hands are the instruments of manâ€™s intelligence.”
“For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.”
“A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life.”

Source : Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.8, University of Virginia Press

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