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.
BEVERLY CLEARYI was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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 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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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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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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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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