Writers 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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.
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I 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.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I 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.
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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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