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.
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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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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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If 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.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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