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Beverly Cleary 9
American writer of children's books 1916Related quotes
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"I want my books to have their own shelves", you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
Letter to his brother Jeff from Guadalcanal (28 January 1943); p. 28
To Reach Eternity (1989)
Context: I'm going to ask you something. If I do get killed, and I honestly don't see how I can help it, I want you to write that book we were thinking about when I enlisted. If I get it, it's a cinch I won't be able to do it, and it would make me feel a whole lot better to know that if not my name and hand, at least, the thot of me would be passed on and not forgotten entirely. You know, sort of put into the book the promise that I had and the things I might have written so at least the knowledge of talent wasted won't be lost... If I get it, no one will ever know to what heights I might have gone as a writer. Maybe if you wrote about the promise that was there, all wouldn't be lost.
“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
Notebook E: Epigrams, Wisecracks, and Jokes https://books.google.com/books?id=NIhKY8SpAE4C&q=%22You%20don%27t%20write%20because%20you%20want%20to%20say%20something%3B%20you%20write%20because%20you%27ve%20got%20something%20to%20say.%22&pg=PA123#v=onepage, edited by Edmund Wilson (1945)
Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)
“If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.”
Source: Epigrams, p. 353
Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.”