Brian P Cleary Quotes

• In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.

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• If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I’ve been issued.

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• I love the semicolon; it’s unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

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• I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.

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• These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that’s important.

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• Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they’ll enjoy it.

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• It’s perfectly okay if you don’t understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

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• Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.

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• When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there’s some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it’s the punch line to a joke.

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• You want a story? Read ‘Gone With the Wind’. These aren’t stories. They’re joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.

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Birth:	1st October, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Humorist, Poet

About

Brian P Cleary was born in Lakewood, Ohio. He is an American author, humorist and poet. The bow-tie wearing children’s author is best known for his books that explore grammar in humorous ways written for grade-school children. He graduated with a degree in Communications from John Carroll University in 1982, also located in Cleveland. Cleary created the best-selling "Words are CATegorical" series for grade school readers, a 17-volume set with more than 2 million copies in print published by Lerner Publishing Group. He has also written humor essays for national and local magazines and newspapers. His cartoon writings have been published in more than 600 newspapers worldwide. His books have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide.

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