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.
BEVERLY CLEARYIf she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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 was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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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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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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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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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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