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Beverly Cleary

  • “Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.”

  • “If I don't enjoy what I'm writing I put it in the wastebasket. Because if I don't enjoy writing it, why would anybody enjoy reading it?”

    • Beverly Cleary,
    • in The Los Angeles Times ()

Beverly Cleary, U.S. children's writer,

(1916)

Full name: Beverly Atlee Bunn Cleary.