Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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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I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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We 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.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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