Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
BEVERLY CLEARYProblem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
BEVERLY CLEARYIn my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
BEVERLY CLEARYI think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
BEVERLY CLEARYI have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
BEVERLY CLEARYI 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.
BEVERLY CLEARYAll knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
BEVERLY CLEARYI enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
BEVERLY CLEARYI am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
BEVERLY CLEARYI don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
BEVERLY CLEARYIf we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
BEVERLY CLEARYWe didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
BEVERLY CLEARYDidn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
BEVERLY CLEARYI wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
BEVERLY CLEARYIf she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
BEVERLY CLEARYWriters are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
BEVERLY CLEARYThe key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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